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August 1991

Colby Magazine Vol. 80, No. 4: August 1991

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A Round of Applause for the 6,500 alumni who contributed to the largest Alumni Fund in Colby's history.*

Thanks to everyone.

���rMike Franklin '63 Alumni Fund Chair for the Alumni Fund Committee

*When this ad went to press the fund was running 10.5 percent ahead of last year and was well on its way to its $1.4 million goal! INSIDE COLBY

Cover Story The first three issues of the new Colby have received high 15 marks for immediacy, impact, A New Day on Stage: Once upon a Colby stage, they were relevance and candor. As Rocco unappreciated orphan of the Engli h Department. o more. Now Landesman '69, the Broadway .rudent the pians (including those pictured on the co\·er in la·t producer profiled on page 12, ·eme·ter' Strider Theater production of Twelfth ighc) earn profes­ might put it, we have a hit on sional credential with their baccalaureates as full-fledged perform­ our hands. ing arts majors. In an i sue that celebrates College performerspre;;enr We are e pec1ally gratified and past, Colby tells how an exciting d1 c1pline came of age. at the reception of the repack­ pg. 6 aged Alumni at Large section. A we declare on every cover, Features thi is a maga:ine for alumni, 6 parents and friends. Yet, as Political Correctness, A View From the Front: What constitutes Emerson noted, nothing is ever free peech on campus? Are American colleges discarding We tern gained without losing something idea for new, "radical" news of world deve lopmem? Colby Govern­ el e, and it wa obviou from the ment Profes or G. Calvin Macken:ie, a significant figure in govern­ rnrt that any effort to enliven ment and higher education, ay- the national controversy m·er -uch alumni news would involve questions is fueled by misunderstanding and misinformation. some rededication of space. This, in tum, brings u to 12 the que tion of "Colby wed­ The Odds Are With Him: Rocco Landesman '69 has a winning dings." The new format might pg. 12 tyle. Now head of a major theater organi:ation, Landesman has used allow for one or two group pho­ the daring of a horseplayer, the insight of a profe sor at a prestigious to of alumni congratulating the graduate school of drama and the guile of a Wall rreet financial late t "Colby couple" to make wizard to reshape the way shows are produced on Broadway. the journey from campu ro­ mance to lifetime commitment. 20 In some college magazines that Hail and Farewell: Colby's 1 70th graduating class departs Mayflower might be more than enough Hill on a magnificent weekend in May. space. But Colby romances do eem to last, and the inclusion of a mere sampling of the photo we get would only heighten the Departments d isappoinunem for tho e whose pictures fail to appear. Thu , 2 28 pg. 20 Colby will cease to publish any Periscope Gifts & Grants of the e photo . Alumni are urged to forward news of wed­ 3 31 dings to class correspondents, News from the Hill Homecoming '91 who will be pleased to report them in detail. 22 33 We regret thi loss, but we Student Life Alumni At Large implore all to con ider the en­ ument expressed by Ben Jonson 24 77 in a contemporaryappreciation Paging Parents Obituaries of hakespeare: "Reader, look, 26 80 Not at hispicture, but his book." pg. 26 Books & Authors Letter

Colby , August 1991 PERISCOPE

Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI.

Duck Soup Colby readers will remember that the trouble student agenda for next year will include scrutiny of plans for new started la t fall when too many ducks got hooked on handouts at student advising and mentor programs. Johnson Pond. The ice left in early April and, sure enough, the next day the pond was abloom with algae. The pond has one inlet and no natural outlet. The ducks have both ....Russ Cole's Ecological On the Inside President Bill Cotter has been appointed Theory class put theory into practice and dragged off some of the by Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to a presidential com­ George algae. Signs are up asking folks to refrain from feeding the ducks. mission on the financing of higher education. President Bush, Everyone is cooperating except, of cour e, the ducks. A single pair of House Speaker Tom Foley and Mitchell each had three mallards took up residence in early May and proudly produced a brood appointees to the group. Cotter has also been elected vice chair of the National Association of Independent Colleges, the nation's large t of a dozen ducklings in time for Commencement. private education lobby.

Colby Pride Keith Devlin, Caner Professor and chair of Stay Tuned The Student Association has required that the Math Department, will be featured lecturer at the United States the campu radio station, WMHB, revert to an all-student board of Mathematical Olympiad in Washington, D. C., this summer .. directors. The station receives the bulk of its funding ($13,000+ Debra Aitken was cho en Division III indoor track and field coach annually) from Stu-A. In recent years the organization had, on its of the year by the New England Women's Intercollegiate Cross­ own and contrary to its bylaws, transformed into a "communiry" Country and Track and Field Association ....Students in Steve station, held an off-campus bank account and placed communiry Saunders' Music 342 class restored a long-forgotten musical master­ members on its board. piece, the String Quartet in B-flat of Ignaz Pleyel. The 1 788 work was presented in a lecture-recital in the spring. In his day, Pleyel was far more widely known than his contemporaries, including Mozart. Fees Set Overall student charges will increase by 6.9 per­ Salute the students and faculty (Dave Firmage, Russ Cole and Herb cent forthe coming academic year, the lowest percentage increase in Wilson) of the Problems in Environmental Science class, who 15 years. Total charge will be $21,810, and Colby's overall operating studied the impact of a proposed gravel mining operation near Great budget will be $50.6 million, up from $47.9 million in FY 1990-91. Pond. Their findings helped the public call for a hearing before the Bureau of Environmental Protection to review the mining applica­ Newcomers For the eighth year in a row, Colby received tion. Dave Firmage was interviewed about the project on Worlll more than 3,000 applications foradmission-this despite a continu­ Monitor, an internationallybroadcast news program from the Chri - ing nationwide decline in the number of 18-year-olds. Applicant tian Science Monitor organization . . ..Priscilla Doe! and Jane Moss included 333 international students from 72 countries, the most ever. (modern foreign languages) were among only 22 New England A third of the entering class applied early decision, also a record. Ten scholars to receive Canadian Studies Grants this year. percent of the new students are American students of color, 11 percent come from Maine and nearly 40 percent are from some 30 states outside New England. Saving Whole Forests Colby's recycling effort, begun more than a year ago by Jennie Alfond '92 with the help of many other students, has worked so well that the Physical Plant Moosecellaneous After more than a month of blank Department is taking over collection responsibilities in the academic faces, repairs on the Miller Library tower clock are complete. The and administrative buildings. Students will continue to collect in hands have been replaced and we're thankful that the four faces do residence halls and be involved in planning and education. The not always agree-why spoil a perfectly fine Colby tradition? ...This program could help recycle as much as 100 tons of waste paper and year, forthe first time, the College purchased a work from the Senior newsprint each year. Art Show, beginning an equally fine tradition .... Colby is among 16 New England colleges and universities that will share more than $2 million from the Pew Science Program inUndergraduate Education. New Student Leaders Some 65 percent of the The institutions are working together to improve science and math student body turnedout to elect next year's student officials, includ­ education and to increase the number of students majoring in these ing Student Association President Jason Soules '93; Vice President fields ....As part of the recent trustee planning effort, someone has Karen Laidley '93; Treasurer Dave Jorgensen '92; Social Chair calculated that Colby buildings have a bit more than a million square Jonathan Yormak '93; and Cultural Life Chair Robin Fort '94. The feet of floorspace. Replacement value was pegged at $124 million.

2 Colby, August 1991 NEWS FROM THE HILL Faculty Revises Curriculum Requirements

Aftermonths of committee deliberation Foes of the diversity requirement ar­ nology, which makes the inclusion of the and two pitched meetings in April, the fac­ gued that breadth and diversity are already quantitative reasoning requirement particu­ ulty has adopted new curriculum require­ sprinkled through the curriculum, and how­ larly important." The vote that followed ments to take effectwit h the Class of 1995. ever noble, the goal of delivering them to soon after his remarks was 54-11 in favor of The new curriculum distributes require­ students ought be not be achieved through the new curriculum. ments through six areas: arts, historical stud­ requirements. Unwilling, unmotivated stu­ While much of the discussion seemed ie , literature, quantitative reasoning, natural dents, they complained, are an asset to no to consist of impassioned analyses of what sciences and social sciences. Students must classroom. constitutes a liberal undergraduate educa­ take at least one course in each area-two, The new quantitative reasoning area­ tion, the keen listener could detect some including a lab, in the natural sciences-and "cour es that focus on quantitative or ana­ other agendas afoot. These centered on con­ a course "centrally concernedwit h how the lytic reasoning about formally defined cerns about enrollment and staffing. Could diversities among peoples have contributed abstract structures"---drew heavier fire. the Art Department, forinstance, adequately to the richness of human experience." Re­ Would "quantitative" remind students of handle the numbers of students who would quirements in English composition and for­ their last calculus course in high school and pour into its courses? What about English eign language are unchanged. drive them away? Would their resistance and Government?Performing Arts faculty, While most change were uncontested, sabotage the entire new curriculum? on the other hand, eemed to be rubbing some stirred controver y. Some faculty ar­ Declaring mathematics to be impor­ their hands together in anticipation ofboom­ gued that the new curriculum amounts to tant in human development and one of the ing enrollments. much ado about little, merely subdividing clas ic liberal arts, mathematics chair Keith Registrar George Coleman reported the existing tripartite division of social sci­ Devlin said he thought "analytic" a better that his research shows that between 70 ences, natural cience and humanities by term than "quantitative" i.n describing the percent and 99 percent of students in the breaking down humanitie into arts, hisrnri­ new area. "Colby," Devlin said, "leads com­ Class of 1990 took courses in each of the six cal studies and literature. parable schools in the use of computer tech- areas. The faculty was assured that enroll­ ment will be monitoredclosely for any unan­ tic ipated blips attributed to the new requirements.

Pugh Elected Trustee Chair.

The trustees have elected Lawrence Reynold Pugh '56 of Wyomissing, Pa., the College's 2-1,rd chair of the board. Pugh is chairof the board andchief executive officer of the VF Corporation. A native of White Plains, N .Y., Pugh attended the Salisbury Schoolin Connecti­ cut before enrolling at Colby. Following two year of service with the Finance Corps of the United States Anny, he was a divisional sales manager for the Borden Company, general marketing manager of the Hamilton Beach division of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, marketing manager of the con­ Photos by Scott Davis sumer equipmentdivi sion of Ampex Corpo­ Lawrence Pugh '5 6 (right) , Colby's new board chair, poses with outgoing chair H. Ridgely Bullock ration and president of the Samsonite Lug­ '55 (left) and Presiclent William Cotter after the annual faculty/trustee dinner. gage division of Beatrice Foods. He was

Colby, August 1991 3 elected president of the VF Corporation in Eric Rolfson '73, director of major gift Roberts's ties to the College run deep. 1980, chair of the executive committee in at Colby, de cribed Roberts's philosophy as He is one of 12 family members to attend 1982 and chair of the board in 1983. "people first and Colby second." Colby ince 1898, o it will not be an easy An active alumnus for 35 years, Pugh While uch an attitude is admirable in separation. Indeed, for now it is not a sepa­ was first elected a trustee in 1981 . Vice all fund raising, Helm noted, it is particularly ration at all. He agreed to work two days a President of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater­ important in the area of planned giving. week forsix months while the College seeks nity as an undergraduate, he chaired the "Dave has a very admirable ethical sense his successor. historic Trustee Commission on Campus of striking a balance between what is in the "It's not really about the amount of Life, which in 1983 recommended that the best interest of the donor and the philan­ money [raised]." Roberts said of his success­ College withdraw recognition of fraternities thropic interest of the donor and the interest ful and pleasant years on Mayflower Hill. and sororities and establish the residential of the College," Helm aid. "He makes sure "It's about the people who really love this Commons Plan that now exist . its a win-win situation, so there are no re­ place and who sacrifice to make it tick." Pugh was cochair of the Colby 2000 gret later." Campaign, which raised $30.5 million, more than all previous fund-raising campaigns in the history of the College combined. He was honored with a special award by the Colby Alumni Council in 1987. He and his wife, Jean L. Van Curan Pugh '55, have two grown daughters. One, Deborah '80, followed them to Colby. Pugh is a director of the Reading (Pa.) Hospital, the American Apparel Manufacturers Asso­ ciation, the Black & Decker Corporation, Meridian Bancorp ofReadingand the Unum Corporation.

Dave Roberts Has Plans Of His Own

Colby's directorofplanned giving, Dave Roberts '55, retired July 1 after 14 years. After returning to his alma mater fol­ lowing a career in the Air Force, Roberts was involved in numerous successful fund-rais­ ing efforts. "He played a key role in securing major gifts, both outright and planned gifts, 106 Years of Scholarship in the Colby 2000 campaign," Vice Presi­ Professors Frederick Geib, Robert Reuman aruiColin MacKay retired in May after combined faculty dent Peyton R. Helm said. "He was also one service of 106 years arui were honored at the annual faculty/trustee dinner on Commencement of the key players in raising funds for the Weekerui. They are pictured with Dean of the Faculty Robert McArthur (right). A graduate of the Alfond Track and the new Carl Nelson University of New Hampshire who earned his master's at Brown arui his doctorate at Syracuse, Training Facility." Geib-noted for his slightly off-center research topics (comic strips, tatoos, nudism, morgues)­ Colleague Sid Farr'55 has special praise joined the Sociology Departrrientin 1955 aruichaired the department from 1970 to 1977. MacKay for Roberts. "He has contributed a lot to the earned his undergraduatearui graduate degreesat Brown aruicame to Colbyin 1956 after teaching profession," Farr said. "He created programs English for three years at DeerfieldAcademy . He taught literature aruiEnglish composition aruiserved to benefit the College and the donor. He asfaculty representative to the Board of Trustees. Reuman, a Middlebury graduatewho earnedhis never dictated but recommended plans. He advanced degreesat the University of Pennsylvania, taught philosophy at Colby for 35 years. He was is a man of great integrity." profiledin the March 1991 issue of Colby.

4 Colby, August 1991 Bullock Bows Out With Some Thoughts H. Ridgely Bullock '55. rheformerchairof Colby's Board of Trustees, was honored ar a dinner for retiring trustees and faculry members on Commencement Weekend. In his parting speech, Bullock--who retains his sear on the board-reminisced about his tenure as chair. praised College officials and exhorted chem w build on rhe progress made in the lase decade. The following are excerpts from rhar speech: When I was asked to take on the job as chair, 8 1/2 years, 35 trustee weekends, 412 Lunder House committee meetings and 1,628 fund-raising Breaking groundfor the new Lunder House admissions building are, fromleft, President Bill Cotter, olicitations ago, I was told that I would Alan Lunder, Peter Lunder '56, Paula Lunder, Steven Lunder and Dean of Admissions pre ide over meetings, that I would have to Parker Beverage. The new building will be located east of Mayflower Hill Drive, opposite Miller spend a good deal of time talking to the Library and the Eustis Building. In addition w the naming gift provided by the Lunders, several Colby president and other trustees and that, of trustees have made TTlfljor gifts wward the building's consrruction. The Lunder House is one of several course, I would have to help raise ome projects approved by the trustees in May. Ochers include an expansion of rhe Lovejoy classroom money. building, the second phase of renovations w the Bixler Arr and Music Center, a bridge between the A l look back over those conversa­ Keyes and Arey science buildings and a new campus heating plane. tions now, I have no recollection of ever hearing word like: "fraternities,""lawsuits," "South Africa," "asbe tO ," "liquor in pec­ fountain and introduced ro Colby the rou­ Demand that the budget be balanced. tors," "CIA recruitment" or "antitrust." tine query: "Regular or unleaded?" ... Never permit a single exception, fora deficit l was told that there would be time It is clear that Larry [Pugh] is stepping is like a contagious disease-it's hard ro cure when I'd take part in public ceremonies, as I into an easy job. His timing is superb. Bill and usually spreads.... will Sunday morning at Commencement. Cotter ha just told us that next year the Take care of your faculty.Your faculty There were no hints then of a unday after­ demographics of college-age tudents im­ is your strength, your power and your key to noon in [Lorimer] Chapel when the frater­ prove-after the ix years of decline that I success .. nity decision wa announced. I made a great have had to overcome. And Bill tells us the Increase our endowment ....We must speech that afternoon, but nobody heard it economy is getting stronger-afterthe years enlarge the number of endowed chairs and over the sounds coming from the group in of reces ion I've had to truggle through. provide additional capital resources. the balcony. Didn't you tell me that wa the And on top of thi good news, we've just Continue ro expand the open commu­ choir, Bill? proved that Colby can raise $2 million in nications among all our con tituents and These have been great years for Colby­ two weeks: first, the Howard Hughes $1 guarantee the role of each in our decision­ and great time .... million grant; next the Kresge $500,000; making processes .... We scored 18th on the U.S. News & followedby half a million forthe admissions Alwaysstriveforqualiry.... In the past World Report playlist becau e nine out of 10 building. we have, and it has accomplished miracles. of the voter thought that Matt Hancock So we've establi hed all the parameters Keep Colby peopled with open, in­ wa president of the College. for you, Larry, and laid the ground work­ quisitive minds and encourage ...an en­ A time when ... we agreed ro let the now don't mess it up. vironment where almo t any new idea will CIA jump through hoop ro interview stu­ I uggest that Colby can now ...work be considered and most good ones tried. We dents at Colby. Much to our urprise, they ro become known a the best small liberal mu t always be willing to take a deci ion, no still wanted ro. Much to no one's surpri e, arts college in the land ....And perhaps matter how awe ome the consequences may Roger Bowen began taking names. you will permit me ro make a few uggestion seem, when the time forthat is upon us, for And perhaps most memorable, a time which I consider essential if we are to get that is a part of our distinctive quality. when Stan Nicholson srood by the water there:

Colby, August1991 5 Political Correctness: by G. Calvin Mackenzie

've been traveling incognito and under cover of darkness lately for fear that I'd be recognized as a college professor. Now that the Cold War is over, college professors have become the new internal subversive . I'm told they're at work everywhere, deconstructing theI fabric of American life and indoctrinating our youth with a radical, anti-establishment theology. Even my own children are looking at me a little funny these days. That's not surprising, of course. One need pay only casual attention to the news to realize that the assault on colleges and college teachers is a new craze sweeping the country. Articles, books and commencement speeches by the score, including one this spring by the president of the United States, have attacked the "new intolerance" on college campuses, the perceived demand in curricula, in student and faculty recruiting-and even in personal speech-for something called "political correctness." Political correctness is a pejorative term for a pattern of behavior in which discourse, argument and good sense are stifledby an imposed conformity that places maximum value on giving no offense to such "marginalized" groups as women, people of color, gays and lesbians, Jews, Muslims and the poor. In the world of the politically correct,truth is spelled with a capital "T," and those who would deny or challenge it are called names like "the oppressors," "the privileged" or "the power structure." And when one reads, for example, that a great American universiry like Stanford has replaced its emphasis on the classics of Westernthought A major responsibility of sound and culture with a new core that heavily emphasizes the literature, art and perceptions of those who have long lingered on the academic fringe, it teaching is to label opinions as doesn't seem surprising that alarms have been raised. What, some may wonder, are they doing to the cherished values of Western civilization? such and to present opposing Heated debate about these issues is now common everywhere in higher views that encourage students to education. But that grinding noise you hear is nothing more than the awkward way colleges change and progress. It is familiar to those who question or disagree with what remember the days when Greek and Latin were dropped from the list of graduation requirements, when religious instruction became optional or the professor happens to think. when coeducation spread like wildfire across single-sex colleges. There are dangers aplenty in the changes through which we are currently passing. But these are traditional and familiar threats, not some new monster that has suddenly started to devour American higher education. Change is the natural state of college life-but it is rarely smooth and it is never quiet. The critics who coined the term political correctness see it as a set of invidious trends in which fad brushes tradition aside, the parts are at war with the whole and freedomof expression is turned on its head. One is free to express politically correct views in politically correct terminology but gravely at risk in challenging or even questioning this new orthodoxy. Or so they say. The problem is that save in exceptional and transitory cases this picture bears little resemblance to life on contemporary college campuses. Every outrage in the name of political correctnes -and there have certainly been some-becomes fodder for the critics. But if you've been paying attention to this criticism, you'll note that the same handful of examples get cited over and over: the new Stanford curriculum, the hegemony of the deconstructionists in the Duke English Department, the expulsion of a Brown student who screamed insults at minority students. The criticisms offered by those who denounce political correctness alert us to dangers that always lurk just below the surface in a free society. It is well that we pay attention to them. But I think these criticisms are flawed in three important ways.

6 Colby,August 1991 A View From the Front

First, the evidence imply isn't there, ar least not in abundance sufficient to support the intensity or breadth of the criticism . In a recent article in the Atlantic,Oinesh D'Souza wrote that "Within the tall gate and old buildings a new world view i being consolidated. . . The transformation of American campuses is so sweeping that it i no exaggeration to call it a revolution. Its di tinctive insignia can be witnessed on any major campus in America today and in all aspect of university life." Revolution? Come on. D'Souza and others suggest that everywhere in academe Western values are now regarded as inherently oppressive, that political transformation ha- become the chief purpose of education and that all tandard , even the oldest and most revered, are now regarded a arbitrary. In fact, while Western values and old tandards are, as alway , the subject of heated scrutiny and discussion, the anchors of contemporary liberal arts curricula are located about where they have been for most of this century. When the critics examine college catalogues they do so for the specific purpose of ferreting out exotic- ounding courses and implying that these are the sum of modem education. But they miss the vital lesson tho e catalogue contain. Much has been added to liberal arts curricula over the past few decades.There are more faculty member and more cour es. But so, too, are there more fieldsof knowledge and more ways of looking at old issues. C uld any contemporary college really be worth the co t of attendance if it lacke courses on computers, the impact of nuclear weapons, pace cience, race relation , the non-Westerncult ures in which most of the world' population reside , the shifting roles of women and the restructuring of families? There i much to sort out in thi perplexing new age, and colleges have struggled to keep up with the need for new forms of analysis and new levels of understanding. Curricula reflect that struggle. Thar, however, i only part of the story. The complementary reality is that, at theircore, mo t liberal arts curricula have held to a pretty steady cour e in recent decade . English compo ition and literature, familiarity with a foreign language or culture, exposure to the cientific method, broad acquain­ tance with the social ciences-the old "requirements for graduation"-are till very much in place at Colby and at mo t other liberal arts colleges. There is much more to college curricula now than Western culture and values, but the hi tory and tradition of the We t till take center srage for mo t college student . Some new course touch political nerves-how, after all, can one teach about race relation or labor economics or fe minist literature with total dispassion and detachment from the current that swirl all around tho e subjects? But both the political inten ity and the ideological congruity of such cour es are vastly overstated. Any graduate of a good liberal arts college will usually recall as most valuable those cour es that engaged hearts and souls a well as minds, that treated student a emotional and not merely intellectual beings, that ex- G. Calvin Mackenzie pected them not simply to know about life but to care about it a well. We could seek to create a bland curriculum that avoided any risk of indoctrination. But such caution would be counter­ productive. Much better to try to create a curriculum offering the widest range of choice in subjects, approaches and points of view and then tru t student , guided by ensible graduation requirements, to ample widely and wi ely from diverse offering .

Colby, August 1991 7 The second flaw in the political correctness criticism is that it significantly misappre­ hends the lives of contemporary college students and underestimates their capacity for independent thought. If one believes the national data, the typical new student arrives at college having already endured 18 years of increasingly complex family life and having watched 20,000 hours of television. In college these students are confronted by a bewildering array of influences-newspapers, magazines, more TV, club , student politics and especially their friends and peers. From all of these sources they will receive messages about the way the world work and advice on how to cope with the confusion. And then there are their college courses. Earning a Colby degree requires about l ,500 hours of clas room instruction, plu a good deal of reading and study out iJe of clas . But classroom learning is a relatively Any graduate of a good small portion of our lifetime learning experiences, even up to age 22. To assume that even the most dedicated proselytizer or ideologue could liberal arts college will usually 5uccessfully transform the thinking of a college student in that time is a contortion of logic and reality. recall as most valuable those But the greater source ofre 1 ranee to the imposition ofany monolithic courses that engaged hearts orthodoxy i that students like those at Colby are a hard sell. Their skepticism is well honed, and their views on most political or social issues and souls as well as minds, are well formed by the time they arrive at college-even the most aggressive effort to change them is unlikely to be very successful. In reading the that expected students not evaluations that students write of my courses, I'm often amazed by their simply to know about life sensitivity to the lightest hint of political bias. Mo t students know where they stand, and they are very defensiveabout efforts to change their minds. but to care about it as well. But we have to challenge them-not necessarily to change their views but to force them to do the hard thinking that is requisite to sound opinions. l care not a whit whether a student in one of my classes is a Republican, Democrat, Sociali tor Libertarian-and I've taught many of each. But I do care about the knowledge and analysis that led them ro conclude that one approach is preferable ro another. I'd much rather encl up with a student who disagrees with me after significant thought and study than with one who's on my side as a result of sloppy thinking. The hard work we do in the classroom focu es on improving the proce ses of analysis, on weighing and measuring evidence, on differentiatingfact from opinion. The goal is not to get every tudent in the cla s to draw the same conclusion but to get all of them to draw conclusions wisely. The sub ranee of their opinions is relatively unimportant, but they should not enjoy the comfort of opinion until they've endured the discomfortof hard thought. Sometimes in this process student opinions do change, especially m subjects of which they were largely ignorant at the outset. American students who study American government are far less likely to experience much opinion conversion while in college than are those who study Russian culture or nuclear physics. Critics may characterize this process in its darkest light, portraying a group of ideologically aggressive professors indoctrinating another group of unsuspecting students into some monolithic orthodoxy. In fac t, when transformations do take place-and I'm arguing here that those are exceptional events-they are far more likely to be the result of students engaging anJ thinking seriously about a ubject for the first time than of some wily old professor's persuasive skills. Significant changes of opinion, when they occur at all in college students, are much more likely ro be intellectual than political tran formations. The third problem with the contemporary critiques is that they seriously misrepresent college faculties and admini trations. Every criticism I have read of the "new intolerance" on college campuses begins with some caricature of professors as a narrow-minded group of retread hippies and radical feminists who cut their political teeth on the student protests of the 1960s and whose academic tenure now enables them to proselytize this generation of students to left­ wing, anti-establishment politics. It is a portrait accurate only in one dimension. Slightly more than half of American college professors are between the ages of 42 and 56 and completed their undergraduate study between 1957 and 1969. They are, indeed, the grown-up children of the 1960s. For the most part, these people represent the only generation of Americans that had the benefit of substantial fe deral and private support for graduate study leading to Ph.D.'s, and they responded to those uncommon opportunities by pursuing careers in higher education. I'm one of them. My graduate education was paid foralmost entirely by the federal government. Had

8 Colby , August 1991 those fund not been available-as today they are not-I would be spending my day working in courtrooms rather than classrooms. Did I and my middle-aged colleagues come to this profession because we had a political axe to grind and saw this as the best place to do it7 Hardly. We came because this is noble and rewarding work and because our government-along with many corporations and founda­ tions-believed and invested in higher education. As many readers of thi magazine well know, the lumping of all college graduates of the 1960s into a single political category is an advanced form of silliness. Most of those who attended college in the 1960s were neither hippies nor revolutionaries. And few among those who participated actively in the rebellions of that period chose to commit themselves to the years of study neces aryto earna Ph.D. One could not simultaneously be working in the library or laboratory and marching in the treets. Those of us in academic middle age are no more monolithic than any other cohort among academics---or among the members of any profes ion or occupation. Even in a small faculty like Colby's, the professors who were undergraduates in the 1960s are a varied lot: male, fe male, black, white, Asian, Hispanic. Some protested the Vietnam War, others fought in it. Some are liberal, some are conservative. Most, like the majority of Americans, are pretty apolitical. It is hard to find a single identifier, even in the most general terms, that stretches comfortably over the whole group. Onsubstantive matters, the word that best characterizes this group--as well as the other half of college faculties-is "disagreement." We argue with each other all the time: in our offices, in faculty and committee meetings, in the hallways and over meals. We go to conferences and argue with professors from other colleges. And we write articles and books that are themselve extended arguments. The notion that all professors are cut from the same substantive and ideological cloth would be a bad joke if it weren't o widely believed. The critics further assume that profes ors use their clas rooms as bully pulpits. Nor so. Though I cannot cite a relevant case, I haven't the slightest doubt that there are ome fac ulty members at Colby, and at every college, who have a political agenda. They posses a set of sub tantive beliefs, formedfrom their lifetime of study, which they believe to approximate the truth. They may believe that nuclear power is the safest available technology for meeting our long-term energy needs. They may believe that the world is dominated by white males and that fairnes for women and minoritie will be accomplished only when power is more broadly shared. Or they may believe that the $2 trillion spent on national defense during the Reagan years achieved the fi nal demise of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw H ow can one teach Pact and won the Cold War. The simple fact is that you can't hang around a subject all your professional life without forming some pretty about race relations or labor strong opinions about it. economics or feminist literature But two potent antidotes usually prevent brainwa hingof students. One is that the vast majority of facultymembers are very cautious about with total dispassion and the ways in which they present their own opinions in class. If anything, detachment from the currents I uspect that most lean too far the other way in trying to keep their own opinions out of class discussion . A major responsibility of sound that swirl around those subjects? teaching is to label opinions as such and to present opposing views that encourage students to question or disagree with what the professor happens to think. The second and best antidote to indoctrination is diversity. When a faculty is composed of people with different backgrounds, beliefs and opinions, students have no choice but to draw their own conclusions and form theirownidentities. They may find themselves attracted to a particular faculty member or department or point of view, but distribution and major requirements will ensure that they are forced to navigate through rough as well as calm waters. And they will suffer ome upsets along the way. So what is really happening on college campuses? And why is it so upsetting to the chorus of critics that seems to have formed in the past year or two? Two important changes are taking place on campuse , changes that cause d iscomfortnot only to the externalcritics but to those of us in the trenches. Onthe one hand, colleges everywhere are dealing with some very complex i sues of free expression. The world rightly expects college campuses to be places where free peech i held

Colby,August 1991 9 inhighest esteem-and indeed they are. But recent events on some campuses have forcedtheir inhabitants to debate anew the meaning of free speech and to contemplate what seems to many to be a heretical notion: that freedom of speech is not an absolute value. The issue is joined most often when someone says or writes something that demeans, stereotypes or reveals a deep prejudice against an identifiable group. These have not generally been substantive attacks on a single person, nor have they occurred in open debates about racial or gender characteristics and capabilities. Typically, they come in the form of anony­ mous letters or graffiti or shouts from windows. They are bigoted and deeply hurtful. And they may well cause stress and great discomfort to the target, especially if the target is a person who is part of a very small minority on campus. The stories are common enough around the country: sexual slurs written on the doors of women's locker rooms, crosses burned in front of fraternitiescomprising mainly blacks, posters for gay and le bian films defaced. Many abhor this ignorant, often hateful behavior but deem it the price we pay for free speech. But it's not that simple, especially in a community committed to the education of young adults. When acts of this sort occur on a college campus, what message is conveyed if there is no institutional response ? That anything goes? That the First Amendment is a license for irresponsibility? That a commitment to combat bigotry and hatred is valued less than the constitutional absolute of free expression? The complexity of this issue calls to mind the debate during the American Civil War over the meaning of liberty. In a speech in Baltimore in 1864, Abraham Lincoln characterized the disagreement this way: "We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean foreach man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor, while with others the same may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only diffe rent, but incompatible things, called by the same name-liberty." So it is these days with freedom of expre sion. If a po ter advertising a lecture by a fe minist speaker is defaced with cruel and misogynistic comments, both the lecture sponsor and the defacer will claim to be exercising freedom of expression. But the action of the latter clearly abridges, perhaps even destroys, the freedom of the former. Can a college administration stand idly by and permit that to happen? Can we tolerate intolerance? These are hard questions, and all of us in college today are struggling to find appropriate answers. We are struggling because, on the one hand, we understand how essential free expre sion is to scholarship and teaching. But on the other hand, it is impossible for any reasonable person to define cross burnings, swastika painted on building walls and screams of "nigger" out a dormitory We should not be window as brave and essential exercises of free speech. When someone in our community exercises freedom of speech to surprised that some of the hard- impose an act of intentional cruelty on another person because of the est questions about our social latter's race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, the needs of the community must be weighed against the rights of the perpetrator. No and political status quo are be- legislation, no rules can simplify what is inherently complex andsuigeneris . Though we can work hard to adopt guidelines that express community ing asked on college campuses. standards, such cases inevitably have to be resolved by human judgments Nor should we be surprised when that balance community needs with individual rights. They are not always resolved to everyone's satisfaction. And sometimes they become fodder for they yield discomfiting answers. critics who don't live in academic communities-who don't, therefore, have to make these difficult decisions. A college is not a barroom or a barracks where disputes are settled with fistfights out back. We would be wrong to seek to impose dogma or doctrine, but we must protect the process of civilized discourse that is the sine qua non of all that we do. The most severe danger to that civilized discour e on contemporary college campuses is not that administrations run amok will choke free expression. The real threats are intolerance and hatred, and administrations that fail to respond to those invite their recurrence. Silence is a form of action. Silence that tolerates brutalizing attacks on human dignity undermines the development of mutual respect and compassion, which is a primary educational function. Happening simultaneously in American colleges is a second important development: an explosive creativity in the way we perceive and analyze phenomena. Much of this is still

IO Colby,August 1991 experimental. And like most experiments in their infancy, this one i ubject to m1 teps and overreaching. But the opportunities available to us for explaining human behavior are both splendid and a little overwhelming. Computers permit us to examine data in new ways. Scholarship rooted in the experiences of women and minorities and the historically powerless challenges many of our traditional nostrums and modes of perception. Even "traditional" courses have evolved. Students at Colby today study the history of art as I did as an undergraduate 25 years ago, but they are taught by male and female professors and study male and female artists. I was taught by men about art created by men. I envy T the breadthand richness of what they will learn compared to what l was able I he real threats to civilized to learn. But as the excitement of these new developments rumbles upon us, we discourse on contemporary are forced to perform yet another of those diffic ult juggling acts. The new college campuses are confronts the old, and the old is on the defensive. Some of the proponents of the new, like the proponents of any embryonic set of ideas, vigorously intolerance and hatred, and argue that the old is not simply inadequately understood but that it is wrong, and-in the most radical critiques--even that it is evil. The new seeks not administrations that fail to simply to complement or enlarge the old but to destroy it through a process respond to those of deconstruction. If we are troubled by the new brooms being wielded in our institutions invite their recurrence. of higher learning,however, we hould remember that American universi- ties have always been breeding grounds fornew ideas. That is one of their important functions in our national life. We should not be surprised that some of the hardest question about our social and political status quo are being asked on college campuses. Nor should we be surprised when they yield discomfiting answers. Colleges are freeand open place . They invite creativity and it twin, controversy. Those who advocate new ideas or approache to learning have to fight an uphill struggle against the conventional wisdom and against tradition. For the guardians of tradition, the known is the good. They are inherently skeptical of the new and they seek to fight it off. Proponents of the new react by overstating their case, by caricaturing the traditional beyond recognition. It's an old story and, on the wh le, it's a good one. The natural dynamic of college life, of thru t and counter-thru t, keeps us ;harp and intellectually alive and invites our students to see and participate in the arguing fr m which new ideas and new conventions emerge. It helps to train them to carry on this ame vital function in their own lives. Sometimes we overstep. Sometimes we get carried away with our own arguments and personalize the debate. Our adherence to civilized discourse i imperfect. Sometimes we call each other names and see human demons behind the mask of contrary arguments. But colleges are self-correcting institutions. If we lose our way, we usually find it again. Sometimes we even find a better way. When Thomas Jeffer on was inaugurated after the first contested transfer of power in the lifeof the young and frail American republic, he called on his fellow citizens to keep their differences in perspective, and he reminded them that political argument was healthy as long as it wa expressed openly and in the spirit of mutual respect. "Let us," he said, "restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which li berry and even 1 ife i tsel fare but dreary things." Those are word all of us might profitably keep in mind as we conduct the disagreements that scholar hip and teaching invite.

G. Calvin Mackenzie, professor of government and director of the public policy program at Colby , is a nationalfigure in thefie Illsof governmentorg anization and the appointment, management and ethics of fe deral officials . Among hisbooks are The Politics of Presidential Appointments (The Free Press , 1981) and The Presidential Appointee's Handbook (National Academy of Public Administration , 1988) , a 144-page guide to the federal bureacracy considereda must-read by most of President Bush's high-Level appointees. A graduateof Bowdoin, where he is a rrustee, Mackenzie earneda master'sdegree from Tufts and a doctorate fromHarvard . Mackenzie will be on sabbatical Leave this fall, completing a book on thechangi,ng Landscape of American politics and doing final edits on a fwthcoming undergraduate text on governmentof which he is coauthor.

Colby, August 1991 11 lrhe 1()dd§ A\. r-e With ltiim

Bottom-Line Control and His Gambler's Nerve Help Rocco Landesman '69 Make a Big Splash on Broadway

by Edward Hershey

heater producer F. Rocco Landesman'69 pasted this 1981 His office is acros from Shubert Alley and down the block from l l:quote from enigmatic NewYork Yankee outfielder Mickey Sardi's in the St. James Theater, one of five Broadway houses that Rivers to the wall behind his desk: comprise the Jujamcyn chain, which Landesman has headed for the "Ain't no sense in worrying about things you got control over, 'cause last fouryears. As Landesman spoke, his wife, Heidi, a Tony-winning if you got control over them , ain't no sense worrying. And there ain't no set designer he met when both were at the Yale School of Drama, was sense worrying about things you've got no control over, 'cause ifyou got no in the midst of one of a string of 15-hour workdays at the St. James, control over them , ain't no sense worrying." trying to fine tune The Secret Garden. A whimsical watercolor on the oppo ite wall may strike closer "It's going to run foryears and years," Landesman said, sounding to Landesman's real philosophy- more resolute than optimistic. As worry about control and everything the play's landlord and coproducer, else will fall into place. he controls just how long it will run, The painting depicts agiant frog and there is some emotional attach­ hurdling the marquee of Big River, the WINNER! ment-the Landesmans nurtured musical adaptation of Huckleberry the show through its near stillbirth Finn that Landesman produced in 3 IONY.AWARDS at a regional theaterin Virginia two 1985. After an unenthusiastic recep­ THE THE THE years ago. But Landesman has dem­ tion fromthe critics, Landesman took STAR STORY SETTING onstrated that he bases such deci­ Big River "directly to the public." He sions on numbers, not sentiment. • 1991 • staged a frog-jumping contest outside He closed M. Butterfly, hi first ma­ the Eugene O'Neill Theater on West jor hit at]ujamcyn, when it was still 49th Street. The resulting publicity drawing respectable audiences, be­ helped keep the show alive to win cause a revival of Cat on a Hot Tin seven Tony awards, run for more than Roof had bigger box office potential. two years and allow Landesman and Landesman Iikes to th ink ahead the other investors to double their and think big. It is a trait he seems to money. And the successe that have have inherited from his father, and followed are but the latest triumphs it led him to cut short his year at in a flamboyant career that has taken Colby-though he is now an active Landesman from Colby to Yale to alumnus and was elected an over­ Wall Street to Belmont Park to Broad- seer in April. way. "I had a wonderful experience Mixed reviews failed to doom at Colby," he says, "It was a great Big River because Landesman seized place to go to college. It was small control of audience development. His and I loved it. But I felt I ought to try quixotic method has become an accepted formulaon Broadway: an someplace bigger." increasing tendency to place power over shows in fewer hands and This was at the height of campus unrest in the sixties, and thus reduce the financial risk that plagues full-scale productions. Landesman was corresponding with a high school friend at the "We always plan for mixed reviews or worse," Landesman said University of Wisconsin, one of the centers of the national student barely a week before the opening of his latest show, a musical movement. "Madison and Berkeley were the places," Landesman adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. "We says. "I wanted to see for my elf, to be closer to the action, so I have a $ 1.7 million advance [in ticket sales]. and that should ensure transferred." this show will get to the public." After graduating from Wisconsin, Landesman enrolled at Yale

12 Colby , August 1991 and studied with Robert Brustein, head of the university' drama Big River and a second Broadway musical he produced in 1987, department. He earned his master's degree and then convinced Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, helped bring Landesman to the Brustein to keep him on to teach dramatic literature and criticism. attention of retired Minneapoli industrialist James Binger. But the wanderlust and the thirstfor more excitement lured him from Binger's Jujamcyn theaters were foundering in the face of stiff New Haven. "My metabolism was just faster than academic life would competition from the 16-theater Shubert organization and the 10- support," he explained in a New York Times profile last year. " I really theater Nederlander chain. Lande man, sensing how desperate needed more action and a lot more immediate gratification." Jujamcyn president Richard Wolffwas to attract a quality production By the time he resigned to one of his darkened in 1977 Landesman wa al­ houses, negotiated a sweet­ ready about fourfifths out of heart lease with Wolffthat Yale. He had arranged to allowed Imo the Woods to teach all hiscla sesone day a play rent-free until it week so he could pend most started earning a profit. of his time managing hi in­ That deal apparently vestments and those of sev­ convinced Binger he had eral Yale col leagues. He the wrong man in charge. founded a private mutual When he asked if Landes­ fund, namedfor hisbeloved man might like to run his St. Louis Cardinal baseball theaters, Landesman's re­ team, with seven colleague sponse was immediate and and friend . appropriate: "You bet." When he was not "It was my fir t pay­ watching the stock ticker, ing job since my days at Landesman was looking at Yale,"Landesmanrecalled. the toreboard at the Belmont And it couldn't have come and Aqueduct racetracks in at a better time. Le than New York-and not just to a month later, in October L.andesman (below) does things a bit differently. Though his West 44th Streec officeis monitor his wagers. A a 1987, the stock market a few doars from Sardi's, he staged the opening night parry for The Secret Garden horse owner, he assembled a downtown at the South Street Seapart. Strong advancesales, a Landesman trademark, plunged. The high-flying barn of a dozen thorough­ assured a good run far the musical his wife, set designerHeidi L.andesman, produced. Cardinal Fund, whose breds, including Lean Lad, a share value had increased major stake winner. thirtyfold in a decade, In the evenings he and nearly crashed. Heidi were often on Broad­ "I was really shocked way, where she was estab­ more than anything else," lishing herself as a successful Lande man ay . "I was a et designer. Landesman re- hotshot one minute and member being introduced then-well, we made some to a producer on the opening foolish investments, using night of one of Heidi's plays, too much leverage. It is 'Night Mother, and having just about back to where it the woman say, "Oh, you're wa before." the husband." The lesson? It's right "In those days," he says, there on the office wall: "I was just tagging along." Don't worry about what But Lande man is never you cannot control, but try likely to be near the action to control everything. That without becoming part of it. is the way Rocco and Heidi One night in 1983, he and have attacked Broadway Heidi were driving from their these pastfour years, notch­ home in Brooklyn Heights to the Lone Star Cafe, a New York club, ing such artistic and financial hits as M. Butterfly, City of Angels, to see countrymusician Roger Miller, one of Landesman's favorites. Grand Hotel, The Piano Lesson, Gypsy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I Hate The two started talking about what a fading star like Miller might do Hamlet and, most recently, The Secret Garden. to extend his career. Rocco said he thought Miller might be able to "That Rocco Landsman combines a flair for the theater with a write music forBroadway. hard head for business is not so surprising considering his back­ Heidi mentioned HuckleberryFinn, and that was enough to set ground," Forbes reported in a profile last year. "Landesman's father, Lande man's mind rolling down the Missis ippi. Landesman wrote to Fred, was a St. Louis painter who, unusually for an artist, had a head Miller, who at first did not take the proposal seriously and then formoney. The elder Lande man, now deceased, cleaned up playing rejected it. But Lande man persisted and Miller agreed to compose poker on Mississippi River boats and then parlayed the money by the music for Big River, " tarting a whole new career," Landesman uccessful stock market speculation." notes. "Ifyou've ever seen the movie White Palacewith Susan Sarandon,

Colby, August 1991 13 then you have a pretty good idea of what life was like for my chains, with five houses against a combined 26 for its two largest grandparents and parents in St . Louis," Landesman says. His grand­ competitors and none of the grand old music halls. Ir is not even an father immigrated from Germany to paint murals at the 1904 World's Avis-against-Hertz situation, he contends, adding, "We're more like Fair, and the family treated the Mississippi as if it were the Seine, Alamo." The 15 percent success rate of Broadway shows makes them flowering in an environment that valued artistry and freedom of as risky as one of his previous ventures, thoroughbred racing. expression---especially if they turned a dollar into two. Yet the intense, red-bearded impresario seems to be defying-if Among the family's ventures was the Crystal Palace cabaret in not changing-the odds, moving toward a kind of consolidation that St. Louis. When he wasn't idolizing Stan Musial and Red Schoend ienst, gives one entity complete control of a production from cradle to young Rocco (he never uses his first name, Fredric ) could chat with grave. touring stars such as Lenny Bruce, the Smothers Brothers and Mike "We are increasingly developing more and more of our own N ichols and Elaine May, who often stayed in the rambling Landesman product," is the way Landesman puts it. The philosophy, he adds, is house adjacent to the club. really a response to a need. With fewer and fewer independent It is clear that Landesman's parents didn't raise their four sons to producers ready to sink millions into plays, theater owners can better conform to a mold. One of Rocco's brothers edits an antiques control the availability, quality and cost of their own productions. magazine in New York, another runs a postcard shop in San Francisco And companies such as Jujamcyn can hedge their investments by and the third is completing study for a doctorate in philosophy at arranging national pre-Broadway tours and promoting large advance Princeton. ticket sales like the one that made The Secret Garden almost criric­ At Colby, Landesman majored in English literature-there was proof. no performing arts major in those days-and acted in every Powder Still, no matter how good the planning is, the show will and Wig production. He has fond memories of Professor Emeritus ultimately succeed or fail on its merits, which makes opening night Irving Suss, but he says the individual who most influenced him was nerve-wracking and exciting. his Colby roommate, writer/artist Michael Rothschild '69. "I can only compare it to running my first horse," Landesman Landesman had lost touch with his old roommate until he read said a few days before The Secret Garden opened. "You have no idea an article about him in last January's Colby. Within days of reading of what is going to happen. It really is a thrilling moment, one of those the story, he flew to Maine for a personal reunion with Rothschild. rimes when you are liable to experience every emotion from complete "He was a dominant intellectual presence who took over everything ecstasy to total despair." he was involved in quickly and completely," Landesman says with a When the curtain went up on The Secret Garden, six years to the smile. "[ got pretty far at Colby just going along in his wake." night after Big River's opening, the Landesmans occupied a side box These days it is Landesman who dominates all within his at the St. Jam es. It is not one of the better locations in the house, but domain, although he is quick to point out that he may be less of a from there they can watch the audience as well as the stage. Afterthe wondermonger than the lavish stories about him in New York, Forbes show, they went to a restaurant at the South Street Seaport for the and The New York Times have suggested. traditional party and awaited the early reviews. He notes that Jujamcyn is decidedly No. 3 among Broadway Almost predictably, Frank Rich of the Times found more to dislike than to like about the play, primarily complaining about its literary pretensions. But even before the public read that review it heard far more favorable reports on ra­ dio and television, and within days critics for both Time and The New Yorker gave it thumbs up. With three young sons, a home on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and yet another Broadway hit, Landesman, who turned 44 in July, is contemplating worlds left to conquer. He is not exactly tired of the the­ ater yet, but he was not tired of reaching or thoroughbreds or the stock marker when he left those roles either. "I started writing a novel about horse racing about 10 years ago," he says, "and I'm Phoros by John McCabe starting to think about com­ The Landesmans and their children, Nash, Dodge (on Heidi's lap) andNorrh, on their patio overlooking the Brooklyn pleting it." Heights Promenade .

14 Colby , August 1991 MaryEllen Mata\'a A\. �e� l()ay 1()n Staue A Full-Fledged Faculty and a London Program Are Giving Colby Performing Arts Majors Professional Tr aining

by Robert Gillespie

t began as a stepchild of the Engli h Department. It had no home, no money, not even a name. But thanks to the dedication of dozens of facultymembers and students, to a disa trous fire and 11 to a forward-thinking administration, Colby's Performing Ans Department has come into its own. Performing arts has been a full-fledged interdi ciplinary major since 1984, with seven full-time or adjunct faculty on campus as well as a theater program at the Polytechnic of Central London. Strider Theater includes a 272- eat auditorium and flexible stage, a complete shop, rehearsal rooms, makeup rooms anda co turner'sshop, light and sound booths, the Dunn Dance Studio and-in the cabaret-style Cellar Theater-a place to mount experimental productions. The College catalogue lists a huge variety of cour es covering such subjects as the history of theater, drama in performance, dance and movement, directing, tage managing and production. To earn a degree in performing arts, a student must get out of The infamous Mack the Knife the classroom and onto the stage-the major calls for "significant participation in performance" in three (Steven Earp '92) with his latest semes ers. love Polly (Portia Walker'91 , right) Not so long ago, mounting a play on Mayflower Hill was an extracurricular activity-scratch a and his nemesis Jenny the Pirate 1940s, '50s or '60s English major and in many cases you will find a would-have-been performing arts (Vanessa Lloyd '93) in the 1991 major. productionof Three Penny Opera.

Colby, August 1991 15 Opposite: Irving Suss performs in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a I 968 Colby producrion. Below: Wil­ liam Hamilton '90, Michelle Cheese­ man '88 and John Reynolds ' 89 played in}oeOrron'sfast-pacedcomedy Loot in the Cellar Theater in J 987.

"I suppose students today can get training in directing and set design and all the other things I wish I could have studied," says Caroline Wilkins McDonough '52, executive director of the Cameo Theatre in Old Greenwich, Conn. "It's taken me many years to learn tho e things." Even Norm Skaggs '77, currently Colby's most visible alumni actor with two Hallmark Hall ofFame movies and an episode of The Young Riders to his credit, remembers having to pretty much find his own way as a student performer. "When I wanted to retrain my muscle-bound body for stage work," Skaggs says, "I marched into Tina Wentzel's office and said, 'All right, what are we going to do about this?' " At the time, Wentzel, now a dance instructor with an office in the performing arts cluster in Runnals, was housed in the fieldhouse. It was partly thanks to the work of people like McDonough and Skaggs that the performing arts major wa born. Twenty years ago, back when the English Department's Irving Suss directed three shows a year, the sole producer of plays on campus was the student organization Powder and Wig, and the performing arts budget was infinitesimal. "When I came to Colby in 1957 ," recalls Suss, who retired in 1980, "part of my salary was $200 a year for theater. We subsisted primarily on ticket ales. At one faculty meeting I complained that there were 12 false chimneys on the buildings, at $2,000 apiece, which represented my budget for two centuries!" Performing Arts Professor Dick Sewell remembers directing a one-act play in Runnals Union in 1974, his first year at Colby. The play was performed in the gym on a temporary stage that had been built for Man of La Mancha. Because the basketball court was still in use, the lights mounted on light poles gradually sank down with the pounding. "Onopening night when the lights came up, they illuminated the first row of the audience and not the stage at all," Sewell said, savoring the memory of his hasty explanation to the audience and his crew shinnying up poles to re-aim the lights. "I'm sure it was at leastas entertaining as the play. And it shed some light on the need for a theater at Colby." Theatrical performances had also been mounted in the Opera House in Waterville, in the loft in Roberts Union and in the old maintenance building by the tennis courts, which Suss used as a kind of arena theater. In 1968 the building burnedto the ground along with all the costumes, two rooms of props and all the platforms that had been built over the years. In April 1974, the newly formedTheater Committee referred to the condition of the performing arts at Colby as a "scandal" and declared, "We do not have adequate fac ilities for the performing arts at Colby and never have had." In the fall of that year the College decided to turn Runnals gym into a theater. Catherine Anderson The committee had hoped for a new theater, and Strider Theater does have its

16 Colby, August 1991 limitation : the stage is small and there is little fly space. But that doesn't bother Sewell too much. "Although it would have been nice to have had a fly loft, I've never felt the lack was a terrible burden," he say . "Frankly, I think the challenges that any theater building presents are part of the artistic process. You have given features and you invent around them as you can." The success of the performing arts program, which debuted in 1976, is enhanced by the Colby in London program. "We asked our elves, 'How can you ask people to come to central Maine to study theater" " explains Howard Koonce, who has chatred the department ince its formatton m 1984. "President Cotter said we needed more exposure to professionals. Could we find a way of building into the program the expectation that students do get rrofessional training and training with professional ? We decided it needed a place, but not Bo ton or New York." London offers students the widest range of drama on tage at any one time anywhere in the world. They see 12 or 14 plays during a �emester-Shake peare, Re toration comedy, a -chool production of a Greek tragedy, an adaptation of Corpus Christi plays. They reaJ them all, then analy:e them in class. There are seminars and workshops wirh theater people such as actor Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius, Henry V). One director took students through textual study, then improvi­ sation and rehearsal procedures, focusing on the choices the production made and other choices available with the text. Koonce ays the course is virtually a history of Western theater. Profes ional visitors have come, too. Dustin Hoffman, in London playing Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of\ 'enice, was coached for the part by Julia W dson-D1xon, a member of the Colby in London faculty. She sugge-ted that he attend a late-semester session when each class of Colby students pre ented a sample of its work. According to Profes or of Engli h Pat Brancaccio, who headed the program for rwo years, Hoffman gathered the students around in a !=ircleand talked foran hour. "He told them he wasn't the type who did well at auditions, where you have three minutes to show your tuff," Brancaccio says. "And once he got a part, he thought Mar Lebowir: '87 directors were looking forquick learners. He thinks you need to take time and explore a part. So he was encouraging them not to be taken in by the pressures." "It's not a requirement [for the major], but everyone goes to London," says Koonce. ''So far, nobody ha not gone. So it's really integral to our performing arts program." Beth Reutlinger '91, an English and performing arts major from North Adams, Mass., was drawn to Colby by the opportunity to study abroad. She says she was amazed by the London theater experience. "You could never possibly see everything if you went to a show every day," she says.

Opposite: Tina Wentzel and Maura Murphy '87 rehearse for a spring dance concert in 1987. Above: William Spears '89, Gretchen Fall '89 and Beth Reutlinger '91 act out a scene from Salome, one of two plays per­ formed at the Edwardian Festival in 1988.

17 Collry , August 1991 Koonce makes a case for theater in the liberal arts curriculum because it involves so many activities. "For example, lighting a show brings not only things typical of visual arts but involves computer lights, while the process of design involves values and shapes," he says. "It allows for creativity. !r's a moving art." Students are also exposed to a wide variety of disciplines within the performing arts faculty. Several members of rhe department are drawn from the English Department. Brancaccio is also in American Studies. The position held by Joylynn Wing, who directed the London program this past year, is one third English and two thirds performing arts. David Mills '57, who began learning his craft in Powder and Wig, is a part-time instructor in public speaking and responsible for co-curricular programs in speech and debate. And Jim Thurston, the department's resident set and lighting designer-and director of Colby in London this fall-taught a foundation of studio art course last year for the Art Department. La t spring Koonce cooperated with Assistant Professor of English Laurie Osborne's Shakespeare class, using his own courses to prepare selected scenes and adaptations from Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida. "The Shakespeare students talk about what we did and what they saw, about what Shakespeare said to his time and what he's going to say to an audience in the Strider Theater," Koonce says, adding that he wants his students to be able to step up on stage and say the words for an audience-and feedback from Osborne's students helps. Sewell believes that the performing ans are as enriching for non-majors as for majors. "The whole concept of liberal arts almost makes the major beside the point," Sewell says. "The number of Colby students who participate is very high. About 180 people on campus now have been involved in productions. So every 10th person has at lea t worked on one show. We had 52 people try out for [last spring's production of] Twelfth Night." According to Koonce, performingarts alumni "go off and do all sorts of things." He names theater

Smooth Moves

Member of the cast of last pring's Strider Theater produc­ tion ofTwelfth Night still laugh about the time at rehearsal when one of them stepped onto the rake and nearly slid into the footlights. This "rake" is neither the cad who dates your sister nor the tool that springs up when you step on it and whacks you in the face; it's the incline of a profes ional stage. Mastering the art of walking on an angle--on top of memorizing lines and learning how to use your voice and move in bulky costumes-require an immense amount of training. It's the kind of in truction many aspiring actors don't get until they reach graduate school, and it's what makes Colby's per­ forming arts program special. Karen Rabinowitz, who provided movement coaching for Twelfth Night, says "theater games" help students loosen up by allowing them to overcome inhibitions. When she asked one actor to become a New York cop making an arrest, forinstance, the tudent seemed so threatened by the physical part that Rabinowitz suggested that she imitate another person in the cast instead. "She was superb," Rabinowitz says. "Trying for the character imaginatively didn't work, so you try it by direct experience imitated. She's found something way our of her movement range normally. She has a wider movement vocabu­ lary." Dance instructor Tina Wentzel notes that "movement is as much a part of acting as the lines spoken. Theater is action, and you've got to be able to move. Otherwi e, stand behind a podium and talk." Wentzel says students learn a great deal about themselves in the process. " 'What do I want to say?' they ask themselves. Rob Isaacson '93 is hoisted up by his fe llow Twelfth Night actors as they 'What am I afraid to say? How well do I communicate?,'" she do movement exercises in rehearsal. observes. "This is all valuable long after they leave Colby."

18 Colby, August 1991 Opposite : Howard Koonce and Bruce Villineau '93 perform in The Venetian Twins, an amorous fa rce of slapstick and intrigue using Com­ media Dell'Arre sragedin 1990. The play was chosen to compete at the regional American College Theater Festival ac the University of New Hampshire last January . Below · haron Lab1ck '91 Maura Smith Daigle 'BB plays the clever and charming Elmire and producers, televi ion and video producers, casting directors, performers with dance companies, script Michael Sprague 'BB is che scheming writers, song writer and mu ic directors. Other attend graduate programs, take internship or become Tartuffe in the November J 9B7 pro­ Equity actors on the audition circuit. Some teach. Many continue to be involved in community theaters. duction of Tartuffe . To draw on this expertise, three event are on tap for Homecoming Weekend in September: an alumni revue, a one-act play directed by Joylynn Wing and featuring student and alumni actors and work hops by alumni in their specialties, such as dance therapy and improvisational acting. More than 50 alumni are already slated to participate. Today's performing arts facilities may be light years away from "the scandal" of the fac ilities in 1974, but nobody is topping here. Last year an artist-in-residence program was initiated to give students more exposure to different performance styles. Japanese-born international arti t Kei T akei spent 10 day at the College in January setting one of her repertory pieces forthe Colby Dancers. Preceding Takei in the fall was Julie Goe II, a freelance director who has taught at the Max Rheinhardt Schule in Berlin and several universities in this country. Another vi itor, Karen Rabinowitz, formerly the head of movement and currently a visiting lecturer at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London, co­ directed Twelfth Night with Sewell. Faculty currently talk of further renovations to Strider Theater and a new lighting system, and recent majors add their own notations to the wish list. Reutlinger, a member of the Colby Dancer , says dance has helped her on-stage confidence immen ely. She and David Moore '92, a philosophy major from Saco, Maine, say they think dance should be required for everyone. "Maybe there need to be more classes that aggressively teach ju t skills," Moore says. "The program needs to teach methods and be more physical, not just take apart a text. We need to be concerned with physical condition." A Reutlinger talks about the po ibility of a performing arts career, she admits to being a little scared about the next step. "Bur as for a skill," she says with assurance, "! feel like I've had that background." Director-actor-playwright-teacher Sewell say , "As a career, this is something I would never urge anyone into. Ir's a life activity to pursue only if the motivation is absolutely mternal--onlyif you mu t. Bur as an avocation and a bonding experience, I have the arrogant conviction of my field that it' a wonderful and enriching thing to do." Cathenne Anderson

Colby , August 1991 19 Hail and Farewell Colby Graduates Its 1 70th Class

ne of the architects of the will continue on the slide downhill, living then came the invasion of Kuwait, sanctions 0 nation's post-World War 11 in­ the good life until one day there won't be any and a war, which, while mercifully short on du trial growth told the 464 America left in the way that you and I know American casualties, re ulted in injury and newest Colby graduates and their gue ts that it and are proud of it." death to still unknown thousands of Iraqis President Bu h and the Congress ought to Before handing ad i plo ma to each grad u­ and others," Cotter said. "While as Ameri­ pay more attention to domestic needs. a te, President William R. Cotter presented cans we were justifiably proud of our armed In his Commencement address, Tho­ honorary degree to Watson and five others: forces and our advanced weaponry, we still mas J. Watson, Jr., retired chair of the board writer Ann Beattie, outgoing Colby board have a long way to go before we can feel of the IBM Corporation and former United chair H. Ridgely Bullock '55, Maine-born ecure in a promised 'new world order."' States ambassador to the Soviet Union, told genetics research pioneer Victor McKusick, At Commencement itself, insiders re­ the College's l 70th graduating class that federal judge and civil rights leader joiced at one piece of backstage byplay and unless national policy is changed the U.S. Constance Baker Motley and former U.S. cringed at another. will follow the U.S.S.R. into decline. Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Week of plotting resulted in the suc­ "Take a look if you will at the Soviet The sun-drenched crowd of 4,000 in­ cessful surprising of Bullock with an honor­ Union, where I was just three weeks ago," terrupted two of the citations with applause, ary degree. To keep the award from Bullock Watson said. "That's a great empire stretched once in praise of Motley for her work as a until its moment of pre entation, bogus pro­ out over nine time zones, with 330 million young litigator on the Supreme Court case grams without his degree listed were printed people-by far the greatest empire in the that declared school segregation unconsti­ just for him, and members of his family kept world. And it has collapsed in a period of five tutional and again for Smith in recognition out of his sight until after the ceremony, lest years of her stand against a fellow Republican, their arrival in Waterville give away the The Soviet Union, Watson said, has Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. surprise. Bullock, a man not given to great reached "the realization that you cannot run McKusick had an especially proud sup­ shows of emotion during his eight eventful a country on a communistic base. Once they porter on the lawn in front of Miller Li­ years of trustee leadership, seemed stunned recognized that, they began to look realisti­ brary-his identical twin brother, Vincent, and deeply moved. cally at what they had around them and they chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Meanwhile, Dean of the College Earl found they had a bunch of junk . They're now Court, who received an honorary degree Smith endured an eventful morning in his trying to learn to pick up the junk, and it's a from Colby in 1977. In keeping with tradi­ debut as coordinator of the diploma pre en­ tragic thing to even watch, much less get tion, each of the honorees was saluted at a tation. During the decade that former Ad­ involved in." dinner the evening before Commencement, ministrative Vice President Stanley Nichol­ Watson aid the United States should and each shared a few thoughts. McKusick son presided in that capacity, Smith, among view the Soviet decline as a warning. spoke of the study he is conducting to dis­ others, delighted in trying to catch Nicholson "Our country is in some trouble, and it cover whether Abraham Lincoln had Marfan unaware with a prank. Once they pasted two won't improve until all of us face the facts," syndrome, a genetic disorder. He also con­ diplomas together; another time they slipped he said. "We've lipped from our position of fessed that this was not his first discourse at a diploma made out to Nicholson himself in leadership in almost every measurement you Colby. Asa high school junior fromGui lford, among the N's. There was no such effort to want to pick. We've slipped in health care, Maine, McKusick finished second in a speak­ derail Smith. Ir would have been like hip­ infant mortality, income per capita, stan­ ing contest conducted at the College. He ping coal to Newcastle. By accident, the dard ofl i ving-1 could go on and on ....You said he doesn't know what became of the final stack of diplomas was piled on stage know, it took the Roman Empire 700 years student who finished first. upside-down, the correct order irretrievably to decline and fa ll, but things are happening In his Baccalaureate address, Cotter lost. Never at a loss, Cotter merely asked the much more rapidly today. If the United noted that just a year earlier hi remarks to remaining graduates to accept the diplomas States allows itself to slip without recogniz­ the Class of '90 had been hopeful about the handed to them and trade for the correct ing it, if we allow ourselves to believe that we strides toward democracy taken in eastern ones after the ceremony. can have consistently very low taxes and still Europe and the Soviet Union and the pros­ help the kind of people who need help, we pect of a domestic peace dividend. "And

20 Colby , August 1991 aryEllen Matava �ary lien Mar va Top lefr : Christopher Caponi and Jacob Silberfarb are swornma s Ma­ rine Corps officersar a ceremony by the flagpole fo llowing Commence­ menr; wp nghr: Engl1Sh Professor Charles Bassettcongrarulates Eliza­ beth Helft.

Middle row: Professor Kenneth Rod­ man w1rh the firsrstudents co gradu­ ate as international srudies ma1ors . Peter Weinberg and La1ffa Hen­ derson; Andrew DiMilla (left) and Davlll Anderson play one lasr hand before Commencemenc; one grad puts her gratitude in uniang.

Bottom left : Laura] ohnson looks for her niece Shannon Johnson's name m rhe Commencement program; Daniel Bou.mwn, Rabia Mirza and Christine Kerrigan celebrate after Commencement with Shaheen Mohamedi (second from righr) . Rabia's besr friendfrom Pakistan. Mary Ellen Matava Arleen Kmg-Lnvelace

Arleen King-Lovelace

Colby, August 1991 21 STUDENT LIFE Learning Pays for Summer Researchers

N early two dozen Colby tudents are busy in laborarorie and at Miller Library this summer, learning more about their cho en field , getting some one-on-one instruction and forging lasting friendships among themselves and with the professors for whom they work. Their role-as research assistants for faculty members-is usu­ ally the domain of graduate tudent . Thus, in addition to an inter­ esting summer experience, the students will get a leg up in advance­ level courses and valuable experience that makes them more attractive to graduate schools. Such experience is hard to replicate in a classroom, says Angela Toms '92, who works on molecular genetics research with Biology Professor Maureen Whalen. In class, she says, everyone is doing the same experiment and working toward a known result. But as collabo­ rators in faculty research, students "get to look for a lor of things on our own." Last summer, Toms developed a system for extracting rhe intercellular fluid from a tomato leaf, and as a second-year assistant she is taking a closer look at how tomato plants resist disease. Her stipend is funded through the Clare Boothe Luce Women in Science Initiative. The work has piqued Toms's interest in genetics and molecular biology and taught her marketable laboratory skills. lr has also given her a lunchtime running buddy in Whalen. "We can identify a lot of the plants along the three-mile loop," Toms says, laughing. Hiring student research assistants is "one of the best things we do at Colby," says GovernmentProfe sor L. Sandy Maisel. "They get to see a diffe rent side of us and get a better feeling for the faculty." Though most of the students assist faculty in the science disci­ plines, there is work to be done in other fields, too. For a dedicated American studies major like Suzanne LaPrade '9 1, working on Maisel's Encyclopedia of American Policical Parries was a great way to Photos by Mary Ellen Macava review material in preparation for her senior year at Colby. Last summer LaPrade cross referenced the index for the encyclopedia, GovernmentProf essor Sandy Maisel and Suzanne LaPrade '91 review the published in June, and she revised table for the second edition of one hundreds of pages that make up his policical encyclopedia's index. of Mai el' books. LaPrade entertained other re earch assistants at meals with daily "she wasn't just a grunt collecting the samples. l would not have updates on her progress through the alphabet. She says the camara­ gotten the work done ifRenee had not assisted." During an eight-day derie was one of the most important side benefits of her job. "There span, Blanchard pent more time in the lab than King did. Water are students from all over the world here in the summer, both samples were collected by King every two to four hours around the international students and people like me," says the Connecticut clock, and it was Blanchard's job to rest them. "ln the morning,Renee native. "lt became like a team up here." would get up and there would be a refrigerator full of samples she had All of this summer's research assistants are working on campus, to analyze," King says. When King publi hed a paper on the work he but last year Renee Blanchard '91 and Chemistry Professor D. did last summer, Blanchard wa listed as the coauthor. Whitney King spent a month on a laboratory cruise in the Pacific Summer is a busy time for faculty-student collaboration, but Ocean. Blanchard analyzed the way iron behaves in the ocean by many students also squeeze hours into their schedules during the developing a measurement procedure and examining many of the academic year to work on professors' projects, some for academic water samples. credit. Psychology students go to the Kennebec Valley Mental Blanchard' work was funded through the Luce program. She Health Center with Professor Gregory Kolden to help him gather was the only undergraduate aboard the research ship, but, says King, data for his psychotherapy research. Gregory Rideout '92 recently

22 Colby , August 1991 finished writing a questionnaire for adole cent in coun cling o Kolden can expand his srudy of adults to teenage clients. "I spent a lot of time considering the wording of question so we could get the information we needed," Rideout says. While Rideout concentrated on the teen­ agers, Wendy Langdon '9 1 composed a formfor their parents to fill out that would illuminate the family's environment. "Ir's a good way to get to know the profe - Angela Toms '9 2 (right) works with BiologyProf essor Maureen Whalen, whose research delves into sor, to be involved in his re earch and get a feel the molecular structure of tomato plants and the way they resist disease . for what the field is like," Rideout says. One student saw fir thand how the disciplines at a liberal arts grew. That corroborated other data Longstaff has that show the college often overlap. Tristram Hussey '91 examined pollen from region suffereda drought during that time. "It' important confirming Galilean soil as part of Professor Thomas Longstaff's research into the and contributing evidence," ays Longstaff, chair of the Department period in which Judai m took its current form and Christianity of Philosophy and Religion. "It's a significant part of my research." emerged. First inrroduced to the study of pollen in a geology course Similarly, Whalen says Tom ' work has helped her make offered by ProfessorRobert Nelson, Hu sey wa primed forLong taff's progress in her molecular biology research. But perhaps more impor­ project. "Pollen really grabbed my interest," the archeology and tant, she says, was the chance to collaborate with Toms. "This sort of geology major say . interaction is most rewarding," Whalen ays. "When Angela got The oil he examined dated back to 100 to 649. From the excited about this last summer, it was exciting for me, too." fo ilized pollen, he detected a decrease m rainfall over the period and Undergraduate students bring a lot of enthusiasm to faculry a concomitant decrease in the amount of wheat, com and grass that member ' research, ays Saranna Robinson '81, an economics profes­ sor who is assisted this ummer by Kather­ ine Smith '92. Their project trace the debate over whether monetary policy should be fixed or should fluctuate atthe discretion of the Federal Reserve. In the Mathematics Department, Samir hrestha '92 is examining scien­ tific writings forundergra duate-level math application with Profe sor Homer"Pete" Hay lett. In music, Crawford Strunk '93 is preparing a volume of 17th-century sacred mu ic from the Hapsburg Court with Professor Steven Saunder . Other assistants work forfaculty in Engli h, gov­ ernment and geology. Sometime a summer on Mayflower Hill planrs the seed of a career. Hussey liked the pollen project so much that next month he plan to begin tudy fora master's in quaternarystudies at the Uni­ versity of Maine-and he'll do it with confidence. "I could get a bag ofdirt from anywhere in the world and get pollen out Professor Thomas Longstaff and Tris tram Hussey '91 in the geology lab where Hussey spent many hours of it," he says. analyzing fossilized pollen taken from soil Longstaffobtained from a study site in Israel. -Mary Ellen Matava

Colby, Augu t 1991 23 PAGING PARENTS Yo u Can't Pack Too Many Pairs of Jeans

The Colby Parents Handbook is one of the cocktail dress or a sportcoat and tie for that special most complete guides of its kind, a virtual occasion. almanac of u eful information. But no publi­ Explore the Maine woods. Students can join the cation can cover every base, so last spring Outing Club, which, for a few dollars, loans out all the Jennifer Scott '91 surveyed swdents with equipment needed for Maine attractions like canoeing, an eye toward supplementing the hand­ hiking, sailing, camping and skiing. And do partake of book. Based on her finding , here are a such ac tivitie a early and often as study schedules few further hims for parent and stu­ allow, becau e their acce ibility is a major advantage of dents just in time for the coming attending Colby. academic year: Don't drive yourself crazy. Unless you own one oLBy Remember the essentials. already or there is some special need, such as transporta­ Pack extension cords, an alarm tion to an off-campu job or frequent trips home (neither clock, more hangers than you think of which is recommended), most students say an auto­ you'll need, multi-socket electrical mobile can become an albatross. It is certainly not outlets, a lamp and stackable and needed to get around campus and can burden students space-saving storage units. Those with added expenses-not to mention constant requests are essential. Optional items to for rides. consider include oversized pillows, The best things in (campus) life are free. Pay a hot pot, an electric blanket and attention to the varied fare of extracumcular and co­ an area rug. curricular activities on campus. Plays, concerts, readings TV or no TV? Since the cam­ and lectures by both students and visitors abound. pus is not wired for cable, televisions Play something. Resolve to include some form of don't pick up too many channels, but recreational, intramural or even varsity athletics in the anyone planning to bring a small TV year's activities. Small colleges like Colby are meant to might consider packing a VCR for be inclusive, and, while the best players on varsity teams movie rentals. A good stereo is prob­ are often recruited, there are always opportunities in ably a better investment. Division II l play forwalk-ans. lntramurals are popular as Familiarity breeds comfort. Send social and sporting events. Pack a good pair of running along one or more photos or paintings shoe . Everybody jogs. from home-they'll decorate rooms Join something. Investigate the wide range of and help alleviate homesickness. student clubs. Membership in one or more can spark new Dress for success. Opt for utility interests and widen your circle of friends. and versatility over fashionand frivol­ Learn to compromise. Roommates can be a boon ity. Spend the shoe money on a good or bane, but they are almost always a challenge, espe­ pair of snow boots instead of the latest cially at first. "Be as tolerant as possible," one student Joan & Davids and make that winter suggests from experience, "but if you really don't get coat long and warm-with a hood, if along, try to switch as soon as possible." Another helpful possible. And don't forget gloves and hats. hint on roommates: contact them now to compare notes T-shirts, sweatshirts and sneakers are always in. on who is bringing what essential so you don't wind up Styles change, but in recent years shirts with the with two TVs and no tereo. names of other colleges have been in vogue. You can't Talk about things. Find someone you can confide have too many pairs of jeans, and, while Colby en­ in so all the pressures of college are not constantly dorse no brand, we would be remiss if we failed to note welling up within you: a roommate, friend or profe sor, that the College's new trustee chair, Lawrence Pugh perhaps. Relationships with fellow tudents and teach­ '56, also chairs the company that make Lees and ers may not just happen-younger students should seek Wranglers. out people with whom they can connect, and upper­ Going out. The campus wardrobe should classmen can help. They've been there and can provide contain at least one dressy outfit. Save the prom information. gown and tux for the enior ball but do bring a Economics start at home. Students who have

24 Colby , Augu t 1991 never balanced a checkbook should learnhow to do it quickly to save without working. The only place student who don't work breeze is embarrassment or worse. And every student should have a credit card out the back door. and a health insurance card for emergencie . Fulfill requirements early. Delaying all mandated areas of study Pack the change. There are change machines on campus, which not only defeats the purpose of a liberal education, it sentences can run out or be a snowy walk away just when you want to do the students to very long and unhappy junior and senior years when they laundry. Bring $40 or so in quarters and stick them somewhere safe for should be pur uing advanced work in maior fields of study. And, by just such times. all means, if you qualifyfor advanced placement, take the head start. Plan your breaks. The Columbus and Thanksgiving holiday Enjoy yourself. Your college years should be among the more weekends seem to arrive a week or three after the fallsemester's start. memorable of your life. That does not mean they are void of hard Make one convenient and affordable early plan. Then if the fe llow work, painfulmoments and growing pains. It does mean that even the down the hall forgets to invite you to cruise the Caribbean on his tough or embarrassing moments can become treasured memories if uncle's yacht, at least you won't be fretting over uncertain tra ve I plans they are shared and overcome. "Enjoy your experience as much as you when you should be boning up for mid-terms or completing a paper. can," one of]ennifer's fellow graduates advised, "because, believe me, Study, study, study. Miller Library is not just there to decorate four years go by really fast. Get out and meet people. I plan on having the campus. Don't believe anyone who says he or she breezes by these friends from Colby for the rest of my life."

Parents Funds Over the Top

Colby parents donated close to $300,000 to two separate funds in 1991, an increase of nearly 50 percent over the highest amount pledged in any previous year. There were a total of 723 gifts and pledges amounting to $188,466 for the Colby Parents Fund, which was led by Lee and Ellen Metzendorf, parents of Emily '9 1 and chairs of the Parents Association Executive Committee. The total eclipsed the fund's goal of $175,000 and pro­ vided the College with a significant source of revenue a it sought to meet increased educa­ tional needs and keep tuition increases to a minimum. A total of$103,657 was raised through 185 donations to the Class of'91 Senior Parents Gift David and Barbara Prescon (right), '91 chairs of the Parents Association , presented the to help fund a fellowship fordistinguished teach­ Senior Parents Gift co rrustee H. RU:lgely Bullock (left) and PresU:lent William Cotter ing. The drive, which will provide additional during Commencement Weekend. sabbatical support and summer research fund­ ing, was spearheaded by Barbara and David Preston, parents of said President William R. Cotter. "At a time when the cost of an Chris '89 and Liz '91. The senior parents, participating in such a undergraduate college education is already higher than many of drive for the first time, had established a goal of $100,000. us would like, it is especially gratifying to know that so many "I want to congratulate the Metzendorfs,the Prestons and all Colby parents who already are bearing the burden of that cost are those who responded so favorably and generously to their call," willing to help further when they can."

Colby, August 1991 25 BOOKS & AUTHORS Journey of the Spirit

I n the opening pages of her book, In God's Image (LuraMedia centered religions, Millett has chosen to ground herself in Christian­ $10.50), Craig Millett '64 explains that an archetype is "a universal ity. She believes that women are created by God in the image of God way of perceiving a given set of images." For instance, she writes, an and that Jesus Chrit was "the perfect integration of masculine and archetypal journey is one in which the hero or heroine travels to fe minine." unknown land , meets dangers and challenges with ingenuity, tri­ "I find most of the major symbols of the Christian faith pro­ umph and returns hometo vast rewards. foundlyfe minine," Millett says. "In my book, for instance, I talk about Millett should know about journey . She has spent the pa t baptism in water as being rebirthed in the amniotic fluid of God." decade traveling through psychological and spiritual terrain that, if The basis of her belief comes, largely, from the work of psy­ it appeared on a medieval map, might be labeled "Here be monsters." chologist Carl Jung and his disciples. It was Jung who posited th� idea But like some ancient navigator, Millett kept her sails unfurled and of humankind's collective unconscious, a nether realm of shared trusted the heavens. She prevailed. And In God's Image is her reward. symbols that cut across cultural lines, emerging in the dreams, myths "The book come� out of my own emotional and spiritual up­ and fantasiesof all peoples. The Goddess is such a symbol. So are the heaval," Millett says. "For me, the 1980s were a journeythrough hell." seven fe male archetypes identified by Millett in her book: the father's Millett may be better known to some of her Colby classmates as daughter, the sister, the wise one, the wife, the mother, the daughter Craig Crowell. Between her junior and senior years as an English and the catalyst. major on Mayflower Hill, Millett married John Crowell '62, now a Other Jungians have written of the same archetypes (giving fisherman in Barnstable, Mass. In her class's 25th reunion book, them diffe rent labels), but Millett's contribution is to place them in Millett described her younger self as a "typical starry-eyed married a decidedly Christian context. She delves into theGospels and the graduate who was off to be the good wife and mother in a rose-covered Hebrew Scriptures to match Biblical characters with their arche­ cottage where I would live happily ever after." types. And in so doing, she helps reshape the images that have clung Nineteen years and three daughters later themarriage collapsed. for centuries to the women of the Bible. Millett, who was in the midst of In M illett's view, forinstance, graduate studies at AndoverNew- Eve was not created as Adam's ton Theological Seminary (she inferior, nor was she a deceitful eventually earned her master's temptress responsible for loosing and doctorate in divinity there A Woman's Identity every evil in Creation. While they and married a fellow minister), live in the Garden, Adam and Eve found herself stretched thin as a Craig Millett has always been sen itive to issues of are equals, "in unity with one an­ fu ll-time student and single gender. Named in utero for an uncle who died before she was other and in God-given relation­ mother. She began to wonder if born, Millett has endured a lifetime of blank stares from ship to the entire created order." Christianity could meet her in­ strangers, requests that she repeat her name and "the inevi­ Eve, who knowsnoth.ingofdeceit, tensified spiritual need . She read table comment": "Your parents must have wanted a boy." offers Adam the forbidden fruit liberally in feminist theology, "Only in middle age have I begun to sort out all of the because she has tasted it and it is which emphasized that for two mixed messages and conflicting feelings thatI have had about good. "In this tale, she is the active dozen millenia beforeJudaismand my own identity as a woman," Millett writes in In God's Image. one, he is passive," Millett writes. Christianity came along, most "I have been impressed with the number of other women "But the responsibility belongs to people worshipped a feminine who were asking the same questions as I," she continues. "In both. They act as one." source of life and renewal called, the beginning, I clung to my Bible like my children used to In Eve both sides of the ar­ generically, the Goddess. cling to their security blankets, even while despairing of the chetypal wife repose. On the posi­ "When I began realizing sexism rampant between its covers. Soon, however, [my) tive side, Millett maintains, Eve how patriarchal the Church was graduate studies in theology and psychology made reading represents the woman who is (and and how freeing the Goddess was, Scripture feel like salt was being rubbed into my freshly deserves to be ) the equal of her I thought I was going to have to opened feminist wounds. Therefore, like many of my sisters, mate, who is capable of initiating choo e one or the other-or I found myself turningfrom my faith tradition to discover an action for both and who seeks somehow put it all together," ancient matrifocal societies and religions of times long past. relationships "based upon mutual Millett says. While she says she It was a wonderful release and respite. But after a while, it respect, appreciation and respon­ sympathizes with women who are became apparent to me that it was not enough. I also needed sibility." On the negative side, Eve alienated by Christianity and the powerful symbols of my church." is the primordial second-class citi­ pursue New Age and Goddess- zen--once Adam and Eve recog-

26 Colby, August 1991 transform their live and restore to them the divine inheritance of the Creator." In her work as a minister and counselor, Millett says, she sees many women who sufferfrom low self-es­ teem. The realization that they, too, were created in the image of God and have always been integral to God's work "can be very empowering," she Bruce Borich, Daily Commercial maintains. "There is a very definite Craig Millett '64 fe minine side to God that we as women can literally incarnate. It's a nize their differences, Adam becomes dominant. Eve acquiesces, and very powerful and positive force." her story becomes one of alienation-not from God but from equal­ Millett is currently copastor of Pilgrims' United Church of iry. And according to Millett, women who live only for and through Christ in Leesburg, Fla., with her husband, David Yohn. The couple men (the negative side of the wife archetype) relive the Fall every moved to Florida last year after serving as chaplains at Andover day. Instead of working to regain uniry and equality, they affirm a Newton for four years. Millett describes their new church as an flawed image of women. alternativeplace of worship in a region known forits fundamentalist Millett's most fascinating-and potentially controversial--char­ leanings. "We are much more positive theologically than most of the acterization is of Mary Magdalene, whom she calls "the first apostle." churches around us," she says. "We believe in original blessing, not Millett challenges the idea that Mary as a prostitute, saying it has original sin. Our services are very joyful." no basis in Scripture and is the result of an attempt by medieval The UCC "is much further ahead than other denominations in Christian writers to rob Mary of her stature. She identifies Mary as the that it has ordained women since the 1830s," she adds. "But it still has archetypal catalyst, one who ushers in a new world. Mary's belief in a long way to go. Women ministers can find little bitry pastorates in Jesus is total-he has exorcised the seven demons who controlled her out of the way places that pay little money, but we're not often given deepest essence-and unlike the men with whom he surrounded the option to become senior pastors. Women have to be twice as good himself, Mary never denies Jesus. She is at the footof the cross when as men in order to get what we deserve." he dies and it is to her that he appears first afterresurrection. He trusts Too often, Millett maintains, "very, very capable women go into her to convince the disbelieving disciples that he has risen from the the seminary assuming that they are inferior, that they will only dead. become [associate pastors], while guys-these 26-year-old kids­ "We read in the gnostic Gospel ofThomas that the disciples were assume they will get a full-time pastorate." Still, she adds, the odds are jealous of Mary because Jesus favored her over the rest," Millett in favor of Protestant women seminarians, who today oumumber writes. "Why would he not ? They never did understand what he had men by more than two to one. Almost 50 percent of male ministers to say, at least not until after she brought them the news of Christ's are expected to retire in the next few years, opening up many pulpits. final victory and Jesus himself followedher announcement with his Millett hopes women will get the calls. own appearances and instruction." In the meantime, she writes of the contributions all women­ Millett implies that only a woman could have been the catalyst and all men--can make toward reforming Creation. "Our human forsuch a leap of faith. "Women give birth and prepare the body for family lies in the dirt with bloated bellies and biting flies,waiting for burial," she writes. "Women bleed and do not die but live to bleed a healing touch," In God's Image concludes. "Who will bring it to again ....Women not only understand resurrection, we are part of them if we do not? We are ...persons created in God's image, healed it.... Perhaps this is why Jesus returned first to Mary." by God and given God's message of transformation and hope .... It Millett says sheconsiders Jesus's ministryprofou ndly liberating is time to be whom God created us to be, to speak and to act." to women. "During his lifetime," she writes, "Jesus's attitudes toward women were scandalously prophetic .... He affirmed women in -Catherine Walsh '84 and SaUy Baker every way imaginable. He broke rabbinic law by teaching them. He used w men in someof his most graphic illustrations about the reign Catherine Walsh is assistant editor of the St. Anthony Messenger of God. He healed them fromdisease and emotional illness ....Jesus, in Cincinnati. Sally Baker is managing editor of Colby. then, came to set women free. He brought the power that would

Colby, August 1991 27 GIFTS & GRANTS "G" as in Generous: The Gillespie Chair

Three decades of students called him "G ," a simple and affectionate sobriquet for a man whose warmth, wit and wisdom gave a special dimension to their time at Colby. James Gillespie died in June. He had retired in 1984 following a tenure at Colby that spanned 33 years-as professor, then chair of the Psychology Department and, for nine years, as ociate dean of students. And, while his reputation as friend and teacher i no secret, his extraordinary, lifelong generosity to Colby was far less well known. In late spring, Pre identWill iam Cotter announced that Gillespie had made a gift of $1 million to create a new endowed fac ulty chair. In his honor, the president said, the chair will bear the Gillespie name. The gift was made in response to challenge grants from the Kresge Foundation, which the College received in May, and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, received in 1990. Only the sixth fully endowed chair in the College's history, it is thesecond received this year toward a 3-1 challenge from Christian A. Johnson. Calling the Gille pie gift "one of the most extraordinary ex­ amples of sacrificial giving this College has ever known," Cotter said that the holder of the chair will be designated by the president, with preference being given to art or music. Noting that Gillespie would prefer to have "neither his virtue nor his generosities extolled," Cotter said that "thosewho knew Jim will understand that he would have been happy to have his gift remain anonymous." At the same time, the president noted, "it is entirely fitting that one who considered Colby his home and its students and colleagues his family should be recognized and honored in such a lasting and important way." A native of Andover, Mass., Gillespie graduated from Phillips Academy in 1936. His education was interrupted while he served as a major in the Air Force during World War Il; after the war he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Harvard. He joined the Colby Gillespie carries the Hannibal Hamlin Bible w President Cotter's inaugu­ faculty in 1951, and three years later-well before the Faculty-in­ ration as Colby's 18ch president in 1979. Residence Program had a name-he moved onto the campus, where he Ii ved until 1961. The year 1959-60 was spent on sabbatical leave The respect Gillespie enjoyed made him a popular choice as while he completed his Harvard Ph.D. in social psychology. associate dean of students in 1975, a position he kept until his As a full-time Mayflower Hill resident, Gillespie became an retirement as emeritus professor and dean in 1984. Although he was even more central figure in the lives of students, who knew that G officially theadviser for academic affairs, students sought him out for could be counted upon for help, advice or just a sympathetic ear. counsel on issues ranging well beyond his cleanly specialty. Aside from his acclaimed cheerful nature, he is otherwise often He disliked the task of discipline and seldom scolded, relying described by former students as a motivator. Don Short '64 and his instead upon gentle chiding and, quite often, a cutting wit. As one wife, Lynn Smith Short '65, were among hundreds of students who wag put it at his retirement dinner, "Jim's good counsel and his remain ever grateful for his encouragement and support. friendly insults gave this College a wonderful combination of Mr. "J im Gillespie exemplified what we mean at Colby when we talk Chips and Don Rickles." about close faculty-student relationships," says Don, who remembers Colby's tradition of requiring a dean's excuse for missedclasses breakfasts with Gillespie in Roberts Union. "He would be at the top came to an end during Gillespie's tenure, in part because of a trend of the world even if you were down in the dumps. He didn't know how much we needed him. At the time, we probably didn't either." Continuedon page 30

28 Colby, August 1991 ''A Kind Heart''

Jm Gillespie's many frieruls have special recol­ Ifyou needed some fatherly advice or, more low to srart with). While he was able to lections of him at Colby , but through all of the important, a "Dean's Excuse," G was the laugh at himself, he took music very seri­ memories runs the theme that ) im could be man to see. If you were able to come up with ously. He could recognize instantly the ,·oices counted on. He was always there ---on the side­ ome kind of story with the mere possibiliry of famous singers and could tell you about

lines at an obscure intramural game , in the of validiry, G could getyou off the hook . . . . I them and the opera� they had sung, having dormitory , at the myriad concerts , lectures , believe the victorie of obtaining a "G" were heard them sing m live performance as well plays and recitals and in his office . never too greatly exaggerated, while the defeats were as on records, and having read about them. busy to sit with students and ponder the ups and never discussed, lest one be bared to the Dorothy Reuman downs of everyday life . ridicule and humiliation of one's peers. He Chair, Colby Music Deparrmenr wa a kind heart and recognized those stu­ We met musically when I wa a voice dents who truly needed a break and those He was one of the kindest men I knew, never student ....I was a sophomore ....G began trying to pull a fast one. I still remember the a bad word about anyone, always the right to accompany me .... l torally lost the lyrics bumper sticker he created. It said, "Pass me, person to talk to when you were about to ofa Schubert song and he ensed trouble and I'm a student." blow your stack. He had a nice way of diffus­ turnedthe accompaniment into a solo piece, R. Brian McPherson '82 ing people, of really enjoying their company, covering both my anxiety and lap e of Stockbroker, Arlington , Va. of seeming to care particularly about each memory ....After Colby, our relatio ship individual, of laughing with you even when continued. We attended each other' perfor­ His physical proximiry meant that we had he had every right to laugh at you. He had a mance and met at other musical events. We many conver ations about events and issues wonderful quality-unflappable, kind, un­ spoke of each other as Eli:abeth Schwarzkoff at the College and what would come after derstanding, never tense. Theadded fillip, of and Gerald Moore (she was a soprano, he a graduation, particularly for tho e of us frater­ course, was that now and then he'd take a consummate accompanist). Heads would niry social chairmen who survived social few lucky ones down to his house ...and often tum as I said, "Hello, Gerald" and he probation for having organized parties that you might get to hear him play the piano, would respond, "If you please, Elizabeth, exceeded the bounds of good raste and the which he did beautifully and unpretentiously how are we?" state liquor laws. Jim not only paid attention and with such good humor. Mary Walker Rector '69 to tudents, he had the understanding, pa­ Willard G. Wyman , Jr. '56 Legal Assistant, Skowhegan , Maine tience and tolerance that are expected only Headmaster, The Thacher School, Ojai , Calif. of saints and martyr , and unlike most of Former Colby Dean of Students The play was the thing. And l got the lead. them, he also had a great sense of humor and Oh , Dad, Poor Dad, Mama'sHung Youin the wit. For my time at Colby, Jim was our "Mr. I was a student leader during a time of great Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad. Dad was Jim Chips"-that rare teacher whose influence student unrest and rapid change on Colby's Gillespie. Nor much of a role for the head of on his students went far beyond the subject campus. Whether it was coed dorms, student the Psychology Department, but he poured matter of his classes to our values and our democracy or the independence of the stu­ his heart and hi talent into it. He did the careers, for which the course was set at dent judiciary, Jim Gillespie was a sensitive same for a kid in his first tarring role. Jim Colby. and insightful contributor to the inevitable and I became buddies. The talks were easy. DavW. A. Ward '55 process of compromise that allows all great And just like the impossibiliry of delineating Professor of Sociology , University of Minnesota institutions to move forward. I do not know a single thread in a rapestry, the importance how many other Jim Gillespies we currently of the conversations can only be seen at a Jim's willingness to participate in the funof have at Colby .... l only hope there is at distance of space and time. The single most campus events went back to the days when least one more, whetherage 30or60, whether important thing I came away with was that the facultypresented a ralent show, when he male or female, who knows that the Gillespie you should give your favors without keeping appeared as the "Peanuts" comic trip char­ path in life is indeed a great path through the score. acter, Schroeder, playing the piano with Maine woods. Philip R. MacHale '66 Janet Marchant lounging adoringlyon it. He Thomas R. Rippon '68 Writer/Actor, Bethesda, Md. a 1 ways brought the house down ( it was pretty Attorney, Mifflinburg, Pa.

Colby, August 1991 29 Continued {ram page 28 music, says Gillespie could have had a career either in music or in toward more student responsibility and in part because ofG' s gener­ psychology. "Fortunately," says Re, "he chose both." osity in issuing them. Even so, students always knew when they had Re calls Gillespie's knowledge ofopera, especially lieder singers, exceeded Gillespie's limit of tolerance and were often kept in line "encyclopedic"-the shelves of his apartment at Goudreau's Inn in simply out of fe ar of harming a prized relationship. nearby Winslow were weighted with a virtual library of operatic His introductory psychology course was always popular and the recordings and videos. Re and Gillespie comprised one half of the lessons often spilled out into after-class discussions. The author of popular Gang of Four, a piano quartet that ometimes gave Victor case reports, reviews and articles published in various professional Borge-like noonday recitals. journals, Gillespie collaborated with the well-known Harvard psy­ Although his apartment couldn't accommodate his beloved chologist Gordon W. Allport on the book Youth's Outlook on the Steinway grand piano--he generously gave it to a beginning pia­ Future, a study of college students in 10 countries published in 1955. nist-he continued, almost until his death, to play for himself and, if It seems fitting that the new Gillespie chair will be awarded with teased, for others, on a smaller electronic piano. a preference for art and music, because his love of music and drama Psychologist, pianist and philanthropist-Gillespie was all of is legendary. An accomplished pianist, he was often called upon to these. But for legions of Colby students, he is perhaps best remem­ accompany students as well as professionals, including Louise Baxter bered as a true teacher and caring friend, and now, through the James Colgan, Freda Gray-Masse and Luz Morales, all of whom were at one M. Gillespie Chair, he will "be there" for generations of students to time associated with the College. Peter Re, professor emeritus of come. -Earl Smith

Bixler Project Wins Grants

Two foundation grants totaling $600,000 have brought the College considerably closer to completing the $2.5 million renova­ tion and expansion of the Bixler Arts Center. The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich., has awarded Colby a $500,000 challenge grant contingent on the College raising the remainder of the funds for the project by December 1992 as well as $1.5 million for endowment of art and music programs. And the Booth Ferris Foundation, which is managed by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York City, has given the College a start on that road, awarding Colby $100,000 fornew art and music libraries in Bixler. Linda Goldstein, the College's director of corporate and foun­ dation relations, said each grant had its especially gratifyingaspects. The Kre ge Foundation, she said, is one of only two in the nation that regularly support campus construction projects, making its award to Colby something of a coup. And, Goldstein said, this is the third $100,000 grant to Colby in 16 years from the Booth Ferris Founda­ tion, which made an unrestricted grant to the College in 1975 and a grant for faculty support in 1986. The first phase ofthe Bixler project-renovation and expansion of exhibition, storage and studio space at the Museum of Art (set to reopen August 22 )-was funded largely through a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation. The second phase will provide new classrooms and study areas in addition to modernizingand expanding the libraries. At the time of the Kresge grant in May, $1.89 million in additional funds needed to be raised. The gap has since been narrowed to about $600,000, thanks in part to the Booth Ferris grant Work continues on the Museum of Art, due co reopen this month. and the Gillespie chair gift.

30 Colby, August 1991 Homecoming 1991 September 26-29

It's a music extravaganza at Colby! There will be something for everyone on Homecoming Weekend: an Alumni Variety Show. Livingston Taylor in concert.the Louisiana RepertoryJazz Ensemble of New Orleans. 1964as the Beatles (dance). the Colby 8. Colbyettes and Tuxedo Junction. and a jazz lecture with Colby Professor Paul Machlin. See the full weekend schedule below for all the activities, musical and otherwise. Mark your calendar now and reserve September 2er29for Home­ coming. With this much fun on campus. can you really bear to stay away?

TheJoseph Spa will be open 9 o.m.-2 o.m. on Friday and l p.m.-2 o.m. on Saturday. The Spa serves food and beverages. including beer and wine to those with proper identification. Those bringing young children con contact the Alumni Office for a list of babysitters. Kegs ore not permitted in the tailgate area. College officials across the country ore focusing on providing tighter securityand ore toking increased safety precautions. In on effort to provide a safer environment for Colby students, Safetyand Security will lock all residence hall doors. It is campus policy for nonresidents of the halls to be accompanied by a resident at all times. ·information about locations of all events and other final details will be available at the registration desk located in Millett Alumni House. Please stop by to sign in and to pick up your tickets and a schedule. The desk will be open on Friday 12 noon-10 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Thursday, September 26 6:30 p.m. Colby Night Dinner-Sponsored by the 7p.m. Colby ·c· Club, including ·c· Club Alumni Panel Discussions-Sponsored by annual award presentation Career Services 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Student One-Act Performance: Dogg's Student One-Act Performance: Dogg's Hamlet Hamlet 8p.m. 8:30 p.m. Alumni Variety Show-Featuring alumni Reception with Alumni Panel Participants performers

9p.m. Friday, September 27 Livingston Taylor in concert 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m. and ·No cons. bottles. coolers or contain­ 1 :30, 2:30, 3:30 p.m. ers of any kind allowed Campus Tours

All Day Saturday, September 28 Classroom Open House-offering classes 8-9 a.m. from Politics of the Middle East to the Breakfast-Tickets available in dining American Short Story, from East Asian hall History to Biblical Literature. Stop by the registration desk for a list of classes open 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. for visitation Homecoming Weekend Registration· 11:30 a.m.-1 :45 p.m. 9a.m. Lunch-Tickets available at dining halls Alumni Council Committee Meetings

Noon- 10 p.m. 9a.m. Homecoming Weekend Registration· Class Agents Workshop

4p.m. 9a.m. Men's Soccer v. Wheaton Class Correspondents Workshop

S-7 p.m. 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m. Dinner-Tickets available at dining halls Campus Tours

5:30 p.m. Colby Night Social Hour Schedule continued on next page

Colby,August 1991 31 lO a.m. 3-6:30 p.m. JazzLecture with Paul Machlin :"Early New Orleans Fall Festival-Food. games and entertain­ Jazz" ment. Featuring the Colby 8, Colbyettes. Morning Tuxedo Junction and other Colby Alumni Touch Football Game performers. Tickets for food may be purchased at the gate 10:30-1 1:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Class of '91 Mini-Reunion Brunch Departmental Receptions-Math, ll a.m. Economics. Government. Biology, Alumni Council Meeting-All alumni and English. Performing Arts students are welcome and encouraged to Evening attend Football Alumni Reunion Dinner 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Men 's Cross-Country v. USM and Bowdoin Student One-Act Performance: Dogg's 11:30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m. Hamlet Lunch-Tickets available in dining halls 8p.m. 1 p.m. Music at Colby-Featuring Louisiana Women's Soccer v. Tufts Repertory Jazz Ensemble of New Orleans. Admission is free 1:30 p.m. Football v. Hamilton-Tickets 10 p.m. available at the gate Homecoming Dance-Featuring 1964 as The Beatles 1:30 p.m. Field Hockey v. Tufts

2p.m. Sunday, September 29 Tour of Davis Art 8-9 a.m. Gallery and Breakfast-Tickets available in dining hall renovated Jette Art 10 a.m. Gallery with Protestant Worship SeNice Museum 11:30 a.m. Director Hugh Catholic Moss Gourley 11:30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m. 2-3:30 p.m. Lunch-Tickets available in dining hall Performing Arts Workshops 2p.m. Men's JV Football v. New Hampton 3p.m. Men's Soccer v. 6p.m. Tufts Protestant Worship SeNice ------, 1991 Homecoming Meal/Event Reservations

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Friday, September 27 Colby Night Social Hour and Dinner $16

Student One-Act Performance $2

Saturday, September 28 Closs of '91 Mini-Reunion Brunch $4

Student One-Act Performance $2

Homecoming Dance with 7 964as The Beatles $3

Sunday, September 29 Boxed Travelers' Luncheon $5

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Marjorie Gould Shuman '37, Whipple Butler '21, Waterville, do Helen Kyle Swan '26, Milton po tpone college for a few year writes from West Oneonta, N.Y.: Maine, and Locust Grove, Va., Mass., and her husband, Walter. because offinance . . . . Philip R. report on a family reunion at Congratulation to both couples! Higgins '29, Springfield, Mass., Thanksgiving time, withmost of ... Author, journalist, letter­ was glad to have lunch with hi her 16 grandchildren and 24 writer and gardener Esther E. roommate, Frank Twadelle '29, Pre.- 20s "Crary great-grandchildren getting to­ Wood '26, Blue Hill, Maine, is one day last ummer in Belgrade. Brownell '13, Moodus, Conn., gether for the first time in many grateful for her many friend , in­ Phil remembers getting a cup of reflectson the bountyoflife, from years ....Because she lived in cluding her black dog, Tammy­ coffee and doughnuts at the sta­ work in an all-cotton twill mill to Presque Isle, Maine, for 60 years, Lou ....Musician Mollie Seltzer tion cafe for a dime when he wa a comfortable retirement. He is Doris Purington Cunningham Yett '26, Brookline, Mass., and in college! Frank, who lives in grateful for the care given him '22, still has her daughter, Mrs. Venice, Fla., was one of the Jekyll I land, Ga., says he likes to and his wife, Hala, by his son Richard Squires, as well as many founders of the Vermont Sym­ read mysteries and historical Wilson, who serves healthful food friends there. She is proud to be phony Orchestra, which was one books, but he still mis e playing prescribed by the Hygiene Move­ 89 ....For those who have an of the first state-sponsored or­ tennis and golf and going fi hing. ment started by Dr. Herbert M. intere t in the Middle East, chestras in the United State . . .. In commenting on his trip to helton ....Although Harold E. Leonard Mayo '22, Chagrin Fall , When she was a student at England last summer, Ernie Hall '17, Norway, Maine, now Ohio, recommends reading From Julliard, she played viola in the Miller '29, New Milford, Conn., only has one room to care for, he Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. first performance in the country says that he wouldn't try driving enjoys his books and his many Freidman ....Despite a busy life on a circular moving stage. She is on the left side of British roads, so keep akes. His daughter Marian with no spare time, Melva Mann grateful that the Persian Gulf war he was grateful for double-decker Mitchell lives nearby in Farming­ Farnum '23, Portland, Maine, ended so quickly because she has bu es. "Ofcourse in 16 days one ton . ...Marion Starbird Pottle enjoys reading. She particularly seven grandchildren of draft age. can barely hit the high spots, but '18, Ithaca, N.Y., enjoys reading, enjoyed Balm in Gilead: Journey ...Edith 'Duckie' Grearson they can whet the appetite for crossword puzzles, watching foo t­ of a Healer by ara Lawrence Money '26, We t Medford,Mass., later concentration on those most ball games on TV and walking Lig tfoot, and The Rockets' Red expressed similar concernfor her interesting.' ...Ruth Bartlett every day... . Howard F. Hill Glare by Richard Barnett . . .. five grandchildren. And she re­ Rogers '29, Oxford,Mi ss., reads '18, Belgrade Lakes, Maine, is Helen Dresser McDonald '23, marked, "For the life of me, I large-prim books, knits and plays happy to be 'still hanging in there' Portland, Maine, has lived in the can't under tand why Bush thinks bridge. She mis es driving but but was surprised to discover that same house for 50 years. In June he can solve the confusionin the appreciates her frequent visits at 95 he is not the oldest alum­ 1990 she attended her grand­ Near East area. I think he is in from her on and hi family." nus. He remembers enlisting in daughter Susan's wedding in over his head ....It worries me theArmy at the start of hi junior Lorimer Chapel and the recep­ that we et such store in the year. He pent 11 months at the tion at the Millett Alumni military." ...Now thatshe is liv­ front with the Army's First Divi- Hou e . ... Donald C. Freeman ing in California, Helen Robin­ 30s Donald Edward ion in World War I. ... Even '26, Haverhill, Mass., hopes to son Johnston '27, of Daly City, Allison '30, Westerly, R.l., and though she does not travel any­ reach the age of 90 this year; no hope to take the 17-mile drive his wife, Virginia, usually spend a more, Phyllis Sturdivant Sweet­ doubt walking up eight flights of along the coast near Monterey. month in Florida each winter, ser ' 1 9, Cumberland Center, stairs and walking a mile a day .. Marion Sprowl Williamson but when at home he keeps ac­ Maine, has good memories of her helps .... Gabriel R. Guedj '26, '27, Green Valley, Ariz., doesn't tive with walking, chopping wood trip to England and the conti­ Joshua Tree, Calif., recalls that know such a thing as spare time, anddoingyard work ....Wallace nent and of two trips to the Car­ he wasonce his classchaplain .... what with church activities, clubs, W. Meyer '30, Brimfield, Mass., ibbean on the QE II." Be lated congratulations to Nellie handcrafts and bridge ....El­ ha survived two operations, one Pottle Hankins '25 and her hus­ woodJ. Hammond '28, Lakeport, fora herniaand one for a cataract band, John, of Oxford, Maine, for N.H.,admits that he and hi wife, removal, both successful. One of having celebrated their60th wed­ Agnes, are ruled by their adopted his hobbies is making videotapes 20s "How many former ding anniversary last September cat, Misty. For reading he recom­ for rerunning ....Norman Pal­ teachers have found after retire­ as well a their 65th reunion at mends Inside rhe KGB ....Fish­ mer '30, Friday Harbor, Wash., ment that it is difficult to take Colby the preceding June .... erman George E. Fletcher '29, em his special greetings to mem- orders rather than to give them ? Irma Davis McKechnie '26, Fort Strong, Maine, says he could write bers of the Class of 1941, who Ruth E. Wills '20, Ridgefield, Myers, Fla., chuckles when she books about gardening and celebrated their 50th reunion in Conn., confe se to that prob­ recalls what an interesting expe­ salmon fly-fishing. George won­ June ....John A. Chadwick '30, lem. She ays he is glad that so rience it was living acros from ders how many college students Cromwell, Conn., notes that his many Colby alumni are 'bu y and the DKE house on College Av­ today appreciate the educational grandchildren are able to do working to improve this blessed enue. She and her husband now opportunities they have. He knew thing that his generation, be­ country.' . ..El izabeth ' Betty ' have six great-grandchildren, a the disappointment of having to cau eofthe Depression, was never

Colby, August 1991 33 REUNION '91

Bugs , Bees, Birds-And a Bride

I t was laheled "Bugs, Bees, Bushes and Birds," Watson '29-whotraveled to Waterville from butfor the membersofthe 50-plusclasseswho their home in Fort Myers, Fla. Mary, who accompanied Professor of Biology David celebrated her 90rh birthday in April, rode in Firmage's nature walk through the Perkins the golf cart leading the 50-plu contingent in Arboretum on the Saturday afternoonof Re- the reunion parade. union Weekend, the guided tour wa more Bill Cotter was as interesting as ever at about trees. the banquet, quoting from Colby Echoes of "Remember," SO-plus corre pondenr yore with spec ial attention ro the campus Marjorie Gould Shuman '37 noted, "when pol iticking between student who favored a we went to school on the river there were no third term for FDR and others who wanted trees here on the hill at all. It was farmland." Wendell Willkie in read. Ethel Henderson Firmage demonstrated how varying levels of Ferguson '2 9 presented Ludy Levine '2 1 sunlight had affected 45 years of growth on with a photo of the legendary 1923 Colby the edge of the wood , in a tran itional forest ream, which won the Maine state football and what i now a mature fore r. sene despite scoring only 22 points in the The 75 alumni and guests who attended three game . Henry Bonsall '31, still em- received their share of education and exercise ployed as a goodw ill ambassador by Colby's on the walking tour, which ended near the dining services crew, explained how people Millett Alumni House, and for many whose know they are getting old. "You have ro puron M,iry Ellen Marnva I ives had taken shape and matured as the tree your gla es ro find your glas es," Henry said, grew, the professor's lessons in forestryseemed Edwin Shuman '38 shows off his Colby "and your rocking chair won't work." Henry an apt metaphor. Letter sweater. brought down rhe house leading a C-0-L-B-Y Many pre-'40 alumni come back every cheer. year, but there were some new faces, among them Emery Dunfee Solomon Fuller '36 reported ro the groupon the progres of '33. A fe llow of the American Association for the Advancement the restoration of the bronze relief his mother sculpted in honor of of Science who was at the cutting edge of transistor technology Professor Julian Taylor. Ernest Marriner '40, reporting for the during his years at IBM, Dunfee ha taken up a new pa rime, color nominating committee, nominated Howard Miller '40 as presi- photography, at 81. dent and Fletcher Eaton '39 a secretary-treasurer. George Beach At the Saturday evening banquet, toastmaster Wilson Piper '41 will be the group's vice president for the coming year. '39 introduced representatives of consecutive classes daring to Two who were roasted often through the weekend were 1924. The earliest Colbian in the crowd was Vivian Skinner Hill newlyweds Marjorie andEdwin Shuman '38,who were married in '16 and the most popular trio was the Watson sisters-Mary April but delayed an Alaska honeymoon until after reunion. (Now Watson Flanders '24, Elizabeth Watson Gerry '26 and Jean there's alumni loyalty.) Marjorie, the popular and prolific 50- plus correspondent for this magazine, will get one issue offas a wedding present. Fletcher Eaton has agreed to stand in for her, and Fletcher's first anecdote is a story partially about him elf. "You know sometimes you don't learn the true story for more than 50 years," he said. "I saw an old friend, Percy Willette '3 7, thi weekend and found out forthe first time that my father had helped put him through Colby. At the time my fathernever said a word. I was very moved." One of the waysFletcher's father,famed Maine attorneyand business and civic leader Harvey Doane Eaton, Class of 1887, helped Mary Ellen Macava Willette earn money for expenses was to Marjorie Chase Chapman '40, Arline Bamber Veracka '39, Sally Aldrich Adams '39, find jobs for him. The most memorable job? Elizabeth Solie Howard '39 and Isabel C. Abbott '40 catch upon each others' Lives at rhe Friday Toil collector on the Two-Cent Bridge. evening social hour before the awards baruJuet.

34 Colby, August 1991 able to do. They can't believe his mates and with her first engage­ club' and now is fine, thank wife,Priscilla: an elegant dinner­ first job paid an annual income of ment, when she was 'pinned' to a you! . . . John L. Skinner '33, dance forthe SOth wedding anni­ $1,200. 'Even the IRS looked DKE.... Alice Linscott Roberts Sea Cliff, .Y., report that he versary of Ruth and Paul 'Red' down its nose at my finances!' '31, South Portland, Maine, and his wife, a Cornell graduate, Feldman '34, last winter. Eighty ...Helen Chase Pardey '30, shares a word from classmate went on a CornellAdult Univer­ people gathered at the classy Middleboro, Mass., enjoys all of Isabel Clark, Sunset, Maine, who sity study tour to Guatemala and Delaney House main ballroom in her six step-great-grandchildren, says, 'It's great to know we are Honduras in January and visited Holyoke, Mass., and a few from seven months to 16 year proud of our years spent at Colby. archaeological sites in both coun­ Colbians were in attendance: old, especially their cholastic and On my rear window of my car I tries. 'We stayed at some fine Ruth and Red; their daughter musical achievements, but her 3- have a Colby sticker displayed. hotels with beautiful patios and Carol Feldman Roberts '69 and year-old, long-haired cat, Sun­ On the lid of my trunk, another swimming pool , and we stayed her husband, Dave, of Reston, shine, is her real companion. sticker proclaim , "l am a Maine in some primitive hotels to be Va.; Matt and Sybil Wolman ...Verna Green Taylor '30, Loon-ati c."' ... Francis Page close to the ruins at Copan and Berman '34, of Newton Mass.; Saco, Maine, celebrated her 2nd Taylor '31, Tavares, Fla., is nos­ Tikal temples.' . ..Re becca and Harold. Carol was a nappy birthday last September. She still talgic about the sound of trains Chester Wyman '33, Laguna toastmaster and made constant enjoys gardening and daily home going past the old campu , the Hill , Calif., ha strong memories references to the love Red has for exercises, along with church ac­ beans that she hated when they ofchildhoodvisits to Coburn Hall Colby, his Colby Brick Award, tivities, reading and trying new were served at Foss Hall and her and the biology laboratory, with his membership on the awards recipes ....Charles W. Weaver, beloved three roommates. 'Judy' its mell of formaldehyde .... committee of the Alumni Coun­ Jr. '30, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Taylor was her favorite professor. Perry Wortman '33, Greenville, cil and especially the room in the delights in his three grandchil­ ...Bernard 'Bern' Porter '32, Maine, is happy that many mem­ Alumni House dedicated to Red's dren and continues to work on Belfast, Maine, invites all Colby bers of his extended familyman­ late brother, Dr. Sam Feldman, a hi World War II reminiscences, friends and graduates to stop in, age to get together several time a urgeon, avy captain and reading other accounts to help to stay over day or weeks, but to year. ... John J. Leno '34, an alumni trustee .... Elizabeth jog his memory about specific bring a sleeping bag if they wish Diego, Calif., was pleased to be Weeks '34, Claremont, Calif., dates and events ....Barbara to attend his annual Institute of invited to Caesar's Palace la t and Hannawa Falls, N.Y., reports Gurney Cassidy '31, orth­ Advanced Thinking from late September to attend a Johnny that California'ssuscep tibility to brook, Ill., remembers her second June through Augu t. ... Wil­ Car on performance a a gue t of earthquake has caused her to day in Foss Hall, when three sen­ liam H. Steinhoff '32, Ridge, his nephew, Jay Leno ....Portia think about moving to a retire­ iors, prowling for a fourth room­ N.Y., has fond memories of his Pendleton Rideout '34, Augu ta, ment community in the East and mate, came to her single room fre hman roommates in the Phi Maine, plans a western trip for that she is considering one in and moved her and all her po es­ Delta Theta hou e and more re­ late summer; her granddaughter Concord, N.H. Last July she vis­ sions to their suite on the fourth cently of the Mediterranean/ will be married on September 21 ited a cousin in outhern New floor. 'It turned out to be a very Black Sea cruise he and wife in Oregon. In April. Portia flew Hampshire, attended a family re­ happy arrangement with no time Blanche took in 19 9 ....Deep to Tampa, Fla., to visit a cousin union in Hedding and went to a for me to get lone ome,' she roots seem to belong to Maxwell and his wife and saw several mini-Colby reunion in Au­ says ...Alt hough Orville J. Edes D. Ward '32, Bowdoinham, friends ....Annie Tuck Russell burn.... Harold F. Brown '35, '31, Englewood, Fla., attended Maine,who lives in the Williams­ '34, Orlando, Fla., took a grand Bradenton, Fla., fill his so-called Colby for only one year, he i Denham-Ward farm, which has tour of the Pacific Coa t, from pare time with playing bridge pleased that one of his children, been in the family since 1 840 . ... Seattle to San Francisco, just be­ and golf, serving on three com­ John, graduated from Colby in Charlotte Blomfield Auger '33, fore the last earthquake, toured mittees and attending concerts 1958. Now he ha five grandchil­ Norwich, Conn., is grateful for the Maritime Province over the and plays. He and his wife spend dren and three great-grandchil­ the Doubleday large-print books, past few summer and cruised each summer at their home in dren, 'all verybright.' ...Howard although her reading depends through the Panama Canal just South Portland, Maine ....Avis L. Ferguson '3 1, Newtonville, upon what the company think before the U.S. invasion . . .. MerrittChurchill '35, outhing­ Mass., recall that formeralumni she would like. OfherColbyday , Arthur W. Stetson '34 and his ton, Conn., a retired teacher, re­ secretary Bill Millett '25, who she remembers her roommate,the wife, Helen, celebrated theiT 50th members well her Foss Hall years, had been All-Maine fullback and Saturday night gym dances with wedding anniversary a year ago her good friends, the hours pent was a friend to all Colby gradu­ her boyfriend,dramatic artclasse and then attended the 75th anni­ studying and all the reading for ates, encouraged Howard to en­ and cramming forexam ....For versary of the church in Drexel, literature clas e ....Beth Pen­ ter Colby from Whitman, Mass. tho e who may be interested in Mass., where they were married dleton Clark '35, Selingsgrove,

... Phyllis Fisher Gulliver '31, medical results, Alma Fones in June of 1940 ....Harold 'The Pa., acknowledges the attraction Fort Fairfield, Maine, like to Eshenfelder '33, New London, Plotter' Plotkin '34, Marblehead, of just staying at home, working reminisce about all the good times Conn., reports that in June 1989 Mass., writes about a recent gala in her garden and being lazy .... she had at Colby with great room- she joined the 'hip replacement event that he attended with hi Mary Small Copithorne '35,

Colby, August 1991 35 Exeter, N.H., reports that she has recently spenr three week in En­ gland and Scotland visiting the sacred ites of ancienr religion and marveling at the scientific know-bow of early people. Robert F. Estes, Sr. '35, Range­ ley, Maine, writes of bis plan tO travel through the South by camper and then tO visit Alas­ A Musical Life ka. He hopes to have his left knee rebuilt soon (a legacyofhisColby footballdays) ....Besideshaving Every summer, musicians from all over the United States and Europe descend on Carmel, seven published works in psychol­ California, to participate in the Carmel Bach Festival, a three-week round of performances and ogy, Phil Krawiec '35, Beth­ symposia dedicated to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. lehem, Pa. , has taped interviews with eminenr psychologists, cop­ Priscilla Patterson Salgo '41 is at the center of it all. ie of which are now in the Li­ At an age when many ofher Colby classmates have ended careers and turnedto other pursuits, brary of Congress archives. Hi Salgo is entering her 33rd year as the Bach festival's choral director. She also conducts the 70- present preoccupation is making member adult choir of the Presbyterian church in nearby Sunnyvale and has directed the Marin Oriental rugs-his last was a Symphony Chorus. She says she has no thoughts of retiring-her work is toofulf illing. Kerman, which took six years tO "I have the chance to work with young professional singers who are beginning to make careers," make. His classic Oriental rugs, she says. "They have experience as soloists and as choral singers, but the festival can be a real 27" x 54", take only one year. ... springboard forthem." Among the now famous singer whose careers began to blossom while they June Wight Mason '35, Vero sang at Carmel are Carol Vaness of the Metropolitan Opera and Patricia Schuman, who appears Beach, Fla., appreciates her frequently at Scala. friends, with whom she plays golf, La walks on the beach and attends Salgo grew up in Winslow, Maine, a musical child froma mu ical family. Her father died when the theater. She finds volunteer Salgo was a baby, and her mother opened a music chool on the top floor of the CoburnClassical teaching very rewarding, for her­ Institute to help support the family. When it came time for Priscilla to go to college, he followed selfand for her pupils ....Special her sister, Ruth Patterson '4 1, to Colby. thanks to Sidney Schiffman '3 5, The choice was partly a matter of family tradition. Salgo's aunt Cora Patterson Hutchins '14 for his kind words about our news­ and uncle, trustee Nathan Patterson '1 1, attended the College. BU[ it was also dictated by nece sity. letter, Top of the Mountain. He A childhood ailment left her eyes too weak forconcentrated study, and she needed family members wa sorry to miss his 55th reunion to act as readers. The condition also influenced her future career. "I had to make a choice between but hoped to make his 56th .... music and English," she says, "and music was easier on the eye ." Gordon Patch Thompson '35, She sang in the Glee Club and studied with Colby's mu ical director, Professor John Thomas, Clearwater, Fla., and his wife, but left the College after her sophomore year. "l think I profited highly from all the courses I took Maude, usually spend every sum­ mer at their home in Arlington, at Colby," she explains, "but l felt I'd gotten all I could from the academic side of music." Mass. Last summer, however, they She enrolled in the Westminster Choir College, then a division of Princeton University, and went to Ireland ....Mo rris earnedbachelor' and master's degrees in music. lt was at Westminster that he studied with Sandor 'Mike' Cohen '35, Huddlesron, Salgo. They married in 1944 and left Princeton for Stanford University in 1949. Va., has acknowledged that he Sandor was named musical director of the Carmel Bach Festival in 1956, and, later, Salgo hired wrote the novel The Bright Young on to lead the chorus. It is an all-consuming job. Soloists must be bookedfar in advance, and there Man, published in 1966. Last win­ are tapes to listen to and auditions to schedule throughout the year. By late spring, Salgo is hurtling ter he and his wife spent a few between Los Angeles and the Bay area, working with large choral groups in each locale to prepare months in Ocala, Fla., but bravely them for the festival, and in June rehearsals begin in Carmel. Even after the performances are resisted going tO Disney World. concluded, there isn't much time to catch a breath. "We start the day afterthe festival ends," Salgo According to him, visiting says, "planning, preparing, auditioning." Disneyland in California when his children were young was The Salgos have one daughter, who plays piano but chose linguistics as a career, and two young enough, even though Walt grandsons. Ever vigilant for new talent, Salgo says she's keeping an eye on the boy . "I'm watching Disney himself happened tO walk them closely forsigns of interest in music," she reports. by when they were eating and

36 Colby, August 1991 talked to him. He and his wife Jane Tarbell Brown '3 7, Crop­ my wife and [ traveled in Poland lighrful 14-year-old Lhasa Apso would have liked to attend thi seyvi lle, N. Y., take timeoutfrom and Hungary, nor in rhe lea t named Ginger, who is an imror­ year' reunion but had 'too many keeping track of her four grand­ suspecting what wa in store for tant family member .... Joseph other places not ro visit.' . children-two in Maine and two easternEurope. And now the two Ciechon '38, Ridgefield, Conn., Agnes 'Terri' Carlyle Hadden in Maryland-by da hing offfre­ Germany are united and Ru sia and his wife, Carolyn, like ro '36, Wayland, Mass., ays that quent poems. One of her fall cre­ and the United States were in travel, visit relatives and friends he is amazingly healthy, keer ation came shortly after Hal­ agreement in facing up to that and go fi hing. They al·o walk active and enjoy the theater and loween, and related memorie of sudden eruption in the Middle three and a half miles a day, rain movie . She chairs the Ladies' her childhood and her father East. Will wonder never cea e!' or shine ....Congratulation to Committee of rhe Wayside Inn ....Margaret 'Peg' Libbey ...Co mopoliran Elizabeth Ernest 'Bud' Frost '38 and his and spends hours doing crewel Darlow '37, China, Maine, vol­ 'Betty' Wilkinson Ryan '37, wife, Ruth Fuller Frost '36, embroidery and canvas work. Her unteers regularly ar Mid-Maine New York Ciry, continues to en­ North Myrtle Beach, S.C., who Colby daughter, Celinda Hadden Medical Center in Watervilleand tertain guests from around the celebrated their 50th wedding '75, recently presented her with is a library trustee. At her church, world, tutors foreign rudenrs in anniversary last year. ...Robert an 11th grandchild, Emily Had­ she i pre·ident of the Women'· English, keeps track of her many Anthony '38, Waterville Valley, den Rather. On Labor Day last nieces and nephew and .H., and his wife, Kay, had the year rhe whole family, 22 in all, even tries to make con­ pleasure of a trir to Japan a year had a reunion in Doylestown, nections with her college ago to attend the Osaka World's Pa .... John Dolan '36, De roommate, Marjorie Fair. Then in October they took 50 ..Plus Moines, lowa, mu t ha\'e earned Gould Shuman '37, West a freighter from Miami to Bueno many Frequent Flyer point as a Correspondents Oneonta, .Y., who ·rar­ Aires, which gave them the thrill re ult of his travels around the tled her recently with the of crossing the equator by shir. country, including a visit to news that a renewed Col­ Bob is glad Kodak won the dam­ Marjorie Gould Shuman '37 Florida thi winter. Special thanks lege friendship led to mar­ ages part of the Polaroid ratent P.O. Box 102, South Street to him for pas ing along Colby riage onMay4thtoEdwin case, rhe largest in history; West Oneonta, Y 1386 1 new items ....Dorothy Gould H. Shuman '38, Penney Polaroid wanted 12 billion, bur 607-432-8936 Rhoades '36, Claremont, Calif., Farm , Fla. Margie and Ed they got only 1 billion .... serves on the Teacher Education plan to spend summers in Martha Bessom Gorman '38, Fletcher Eaton '39 Internship Advi ory Council of upstate New York and Marblehead, Mass., spent two 42 Perry Drive the Claremont Graduate chool winter in northernFlor­ weeks last year touring Greece Needham, MA 02192 and is a member of the honorary ida, ar the Penney Retire­ from Meteroa in the north to 617-449- 1614 education society, Pi Lambda ment Community .... Aeropolis in rhe south, plus ix Theta, as well as pa t president. Hazel Wepfer Thayer Aegean islands and Ephe u in ...Colby friend hip seem to last '3 7, Orrs l land, Maine, Turkey. Also, she visited rela­ even without personal contact: Alliance, isa deacon, sings in the is a regular volunteer at a local tives in Indiana, Virginia, Ohio Valentine 'Val' Duff '37, choir and is a member of a Bible­ hospital and likes to play bridge. and Colorado.... William 'Bill' Hingham, Mass., wrote of how study group .... Fred Demers Her latchsrring i our for Colby Littlefield '38, Sanford, Maine, much he misses cla smate Gerald '3 7, Thomaston, Maine, and hi friend .... Henry V. Wilcox and Boynton Beach, Fla., man­ 'Jerry' Ryan, who died last year wife,Muriel, made a short trip to '37, Big Pine, Calif., i looking ages to play golf wherever he i . after a handicapping illness. 'We Prince Edward Island recently and forward to his 60th wedding an­ With 10 grandchildren and six talked once a week on the phone, a year ago went to hi daughter's niversary celebration ....Whit­ great-grandchildren, he also does betweenNebra kaor Oregon and graduation at Rochester Institute ney Wright '37, Boothbay Har­ a lor of babysitting ....Cli ff Hingham, but I hadn't een him ofT echnology.... Eleanor Ross bor, Maine, likes to visit his Nelson '38, Nap le , Fla., planned in person ince we graduated in Howard '37, and her hu band, children at least oncea year, and to vi it his daughter in Boise, June 1937. May the Good Lord Ralph, of Houlton, Maine, de­ last Christmas he touched base Idaho, and his on in Chehalis, rest his soul.' ...Nancy Libby cided to take the scenic route to with all of them. Thi year he Wash., early rhi summer. ... '36,Fredonia, N.Y.,emeritu pro­ Florida last year, not 1-95, on plans to flyto Portland, Oreg., for Frank A. Record '38, Carlisle, fe or of English, has the com­ their annual trek south. Ellie ay hi biennial reunion with his Ma ., maintain his home and a mon complaint of being 'busier that he i thankful for48 years of WWII quadron ....Ralph camp in ew Hamp hire, with all the rime.' She plays bridge, marriage to a great guy, even ifhe Brown '38, Searsport, Maine, and yard work, dockrepairs, etc., bur attends college activitie , 1 a did go to Bowdoin.... Alfred Safety Harbor, Fla., reports that he is beginning to think about member of AAUW, the League 'Al' Beerbaum '37, Pacific he and his wife, Bernice, have cleaning out forthe next stage in of Women Voters and the Shake­ Grove, Calif., in commenting on nine grandchildren and two great­ life ....Richard J. Currier '38, speare Club and doe volunteer the recent world events, wrote: grandchildren, with two more on Fort Lauderdale, Fla., likes to play work. She also likes to travel. ... 'Ir was exactly a year ago when rhe way. They al o have a de- golf and to fi h and i a \'Olunteer

Colby, August 1991 37 at Covenant House and for Habi­ tat forHumanity. He hope to go 4 0 S "Best wishes to ro the British Isles this year. Last Frank Jewell '40, who is being year he and his wife, Eleanor, cared for by his wife, Evelyn .... celebrated their 50th wedding Special appreciation to Gardner M. Donald Gardner '40 anniversary. Congratulations! .. 'Chubby' Oakes '40, Potsdam, Edwin H. Shuman '38, Penney N.Y., for his response after so Farms, Fla., and West Oneonta, many years. He, too, is a caregiver. N.Y., ha ·olved his recent di­ Newsmakers ...John Foster '40, Keene, N.H., lemma about remaining single by The Rev. David S. Eaton '3 7 was honored by First Baptist goe toWa hingtonevery month renewingacollegefriendship that Church in Methuen, Mass., for his SO year in the n;inistry. in his capacity as editor of a de­ turned into a romance culminat­ Eaton retired five years ago after serving a the church pastor finitive book on managing hospi­ ing in a wedding on May 4th. He for 28 years bur srill attend ervice every Sunday and helps tals. In the summer he likes to sail and his wife, Marjorie Murphy with pastoral care ....The experiences of George �each '41 off the coast of Maine ....Guy Shuman '37, are looking forward a an Army intelligence officer in World War II msp1re_ ? a E. Scribner '40, Homosassa, Fla., ro touring Alaska in August and Memorial Day column by Carole Vincent in the Wat�rv1lle is a dealer in Lifestyles, USA, and ro spending winters in northern Sentinel. Among other things, Beach said that after ervmg for he thinks that everyone should Florida and summers in upstate three years in Europe-from D-Day ro the post-surrender try Florida, where he has lived New York. . Marble 'Jim' reconstruction of Germany---one of the greate t pleasures of since 1985 ....Catherine C. Thayer '38, Orrs Island, Maine, returning home was eating cereal with milk again. -··M. Smith '40, Oxford, Maine, ay does volunteer work at the local Donald Gardner '40, eniorpartner in the outhem Mame_ law that she really enjoyed her SOth hospital and plays tennis .... firm of Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, was keynote speaker at reunion la t year, thank to the Maynard C. Waltz '38, Basking the 1 72nd annual communication of the Grand Lodge of encouragement of her classmate, Ridge, N.J., ha a greenhouse full Maine's Masons. Frances Gray, of Seal Cove, of plants, largely orchids, but man­ Maine, and the pleasure of seeing ages to break away and spend Margaret Johnson Kenoyer, Lan­ winters in Florida ....Spec ial Mileposts tana, Fla., Charlotte Noyes thanks to Violet Hamilton Oleson, Concord, Mas ., and Marriages: Marjorie Gould Murphy '37 and Edwin Christensen '39, Williamsburg, others ... . Roger and Ruth Shuman '38 in Oneonta, N.Y. Va., for sending along news of Gould Stebbins, of Sequim, Deaths: Elizabeth Hodgkins Bowen '16 in Great Colby friends .. ..Fletcher Eaton Wash., both Class of '40, are en­ Barrington Mass., at 95 . . ..Jennie Sanborn Hasty '18 in '39, Needham, Mass., is writing amored of their new home on the Dover N.H., at 94 ....Colby B. Kalloch '20 in Eastham, the next (November) column for ' Olympic Peninsula and recently Mass. . at 92 ....Wayne W. McNally '21 in ludlow, Yt., at Colby. Fletcher has been conva­ pent three days exploring nearby 91. ...Philli p H. Woodworth '22 in Saco, Mame,_ at lescing from the repair of his left Vancouver Island. Ruth 91. ...Ernest R. Werme '23 in Palm Harbor, Fla., at knee, but his fingers are OK for Blake Thompson '40, Montpe­ 87 .... Ruth Allen Peabody '24 in Port Charlotte, Fla., at typing .... Gardiner Gregory lier, Vt., serves on the board of 88 ....Arthur O. Rosenthal '25 in William town, Mai:s., at '39, Orland, Maine, had nostal­ the Guardian hip Trust (advo­ 87 ....Cl ara Ford Kilborn '26 in Ocean Springs, gic visits to Portage and Milo, cate for the mentally retarded) Miss... . Frances Mitchell Toothaker '28 in Wat�rville, where he was principal in the and doe volunteer work for the Maine at 84 ....S. Louise Thomas Mcqmllan_ 30 m_ 1940s, and to Belmont, Mass., to mentally and physically handi­ Wate�ille, Maine, at 83 ....Jane C. Belcher '32 in Pittsf?rd, attend the 40th reunion of the capped ....Now, forrho eofyou Vt., at 80 ....Frances Perkins C�ry '33 in �aterv1lle Mame, Belmont High School Class of . who have not responded for a at 77 ....Carleton J. Holmes 33 in Spnng Hill, Fla., at 1950-he was principal during long time, please do write soon. 81. . . . Stanley C. Jekanoski '33 in Pepperell, M�ss., at their senior year. ...Correction: And if you want to know the 80 ....R. Leon "Ben" Williams '33 in Clifton, Mame, at Nathanael ' Nat' Guptill '39, address of a classmate, write to 81. ... Fernand D. Fortin '36 in Boca Raton, Fla., at Newton, N.C., was president of the Alumni Office or to your cor­ 78. . ..Edythe Silverman Field '36 in New Orleans, la., at hi class, not Clark Carter, who respondent." 77 . . ..Carolyn Williams Turpie '36 in Wilbraham, M:iss., at was president of the Class of 1 940 77 ....Gertrude Lewia Collins '37 in Hallowell, Mame, at until he died ....Elizabeth 'lppy' 75 ....Joseph G. Antan '38 in West Hartford, Conn., at Solie Howard '39, Acron, Mass., 77 ... . Edith ''Billie" Falt Favour '38 in San Diego, Calif., at and her husband, Dick, sent post­ 75 ... . William R. Andrew '39 in Sykesville, �d ...Albert cards from the Far East this past : B. Parsons '39at 73 ....Clare Donahue Libby 41 mHm_ dale, winter-they were attending bo­ Ill., at 72. tanical conferences and touring."

38 Colby, Augu t 1991 REUNION '91

Class Enjoys a Smashing 50th

The group that graduated from Colby in 1941 wa the la t to tion at the fieldhouse, followed by a banquet in Wadsworth Gym. spend all four years on the College Avenue campus, and a visit to The class marched in Saturday morning's parade wearing Mayflower Hill might not be expected to pack much entimental special 50th reunion hats. The rest of the classe lined the route punch for them. But a major topic of conver at ion at various social at the end, cheering the 50-plus and '4 1 contingents before event throughout the weekend was the attachment '4 l ers fe el to breaking into groups for class photograph and the pre entation of today's Colby. "We saw the class gifts to President Cotter model, we saw some of the ('41' contribution wasagoal­ buildings being built," said topping $31,125 ). A lob ter erstwhile class correspondent feed followedunder the blue­ Bonnie Roberts Hathaway, and-white canopies. who attended with her hu - Bill Cotter spoke to the band.Henry.Clearly, he said, clas at its banquet that this cla s was in on the ground evening, comparing Colby in floor of the Mayflower Hill 1941 to the College 50 years dream. later. After Cotter departed Norris Dibble, who re­ for dessert with the 50-plus member watching Lorimer group, Norris Dibble ro e to Chapel' comer tone being honor Jane Russell Abbott laid, officially retired as cla s and Bonnie Hathaway for president during Reunion their work in fund raising, Weekend after 45 year of ser­ preparing the clas book and vice. He aid he wondered helping with reunion ar­ what he would do with all the rangement . Also recognized spare time. Norris is among Photos by Mary Ellen Matava for their work in fund rai ing two members of the cla in were Norris, Beatrice Ken­ attendance who haven't re­ Beatrice Kennedy Maltais, Lu Leonovich Waltz (top) and Hiram Macintosh , nedy Maltais, Barbara Par­ tired: he practice law in ew Rita Macintosh and Barbara Partridge Dyer (below) marked the 50ch tridge Dyer, Ronald Wal­ Hampshire, and Dr. Louis anniversary of theirgrad uation from Colby . lace, Joanna MacMurtry Salhanick i univer iry phy i­ Workman, Diana Wiesen­ cian at the University of Mi­ thal Opton, Charles Bam­ ami. Most other· are enjoying father and George Beach. active retirements and agreed A round of "For He's A that they feel (and look) 20 Jolly Good Fellow" went to year younger than their par­ Norri-, who received Colby: ent did at their age. A Celebration in Pictures and And it wa a good thing a Colby tie. Hank Hathaway that everyone fe lt o pry, be­ showed a film he'd made dur­ cau e the weekend wa loaded ing the class' 25th reunion with activities. The festivities boat trip, and the ceremo­ began on Thur day with nies ended with Hoover drinks and a buffet dinner at Goffin leading the '4 l ers in the home of Martha (Rogers the alma mater, "On To Vic­ '42) and George Beach in tory" and "Hail, Colb , Hail." Waterville. Almost everyone A welcome conclusion then adjourned to the "class to the evening was dancing lounge" in Dana to watch to the Big Band ounds of Al slides of pa t reunions taken Corey's band ('Tm sorry," by Hank Hathaway and Elmer Baxter. "By 10:30 all were in bed," aid one appreciative dancer, "but modem music is too loud, and Bonnie Hathaway ob erved. "l gues we are getting older." nobody knows how to play a waltz anymore !"). Between the revels Martha Beach and Hiram Macintosh led the charge to the and the great conversation, it was late to bed for most, but all links on Friday morning,but mo t member of the class strolled the enjoyed one last chance to gettogether on Sunday morningat a campus with pou es and friend , and ome took "power" walks continental breakfast at Dana. around the grounds. Friday evening's activitie included a recep-

Colby, Augu t 1991 39 THE FORTIES

Commission, a Junior Church continues his interest in finance. 4 2 "Christine Bruce leader and has worked with Par­ 43 "The response to my He and Teddie spend their spare Shea has moved to Spruce Head, ents Without Partners for eight last questionnaire was very grati­ time skiing, hiking, traveling, Maine, and loves it," reports years. She ays, 'I am always glad fying,and I thank you all," writes reading and maintaining two large Marie "Chris" Merrill Wysor. I went to Colby.' . . . Robert R. Eleanor Smart Braunmuller. "It homes. They have three sons and "She and her husband have been McDonnell, M.D., has not re­ is always great to hear of one of four grandchildren ....Evan busy remodeling an old house on tired. Along with a busy medical our classmates who has received Macllraith is retired and man­ a 'good stretch' of Penobscot Bay. practice, he is treasurer of the recognition for a worthwhile ac­ ages a mobile home park. His She says it is her first experience Connecticut State Medical As­ tivity. This time it is Hilda wife, Virginia Keppel Macllraith, on the ocean, and she is fasci­ sociation and past president of Niehoff True. In March, Hilda died in 1990 after they had been nated with it all. Formerly from the New Haven Gridiron Club. received one of 12 1991 Environ­ married for 48 years. Evan notes Wellesley, Mass., she not only Bob and his wife, Ruth, have six mental Service Awards from the that Virginia's parents were Colby wrote our column for five years, daughters, five granddaughters Massachusetts Association of graduates and classmates of Dean she owned and managed a small and 10 grandsons. His hobbies Conservation Commission . The ErnestC. Marriner. Evan has four garden supply business in Cam­ are golfing and boating. Hope citation called her 'one of Massa­ married children and eight grand­ bridge for several years. Looking you and Ruth are planning to chusetts' valuable natural re­ children. Virginia was Evan's date forward to seeing you at our SOth, come to our SOth, Bob, and do sources,' and said she was a 'guid­ for Winter Carnival in 1940. Christine ....David Brodie an­ bring your golf clubs . . ..Esther ing force' in 'adopting and Remember Red Norvo and swered the question, 'Have you Goldfield Shafer and her hus­ enforcing local environmental Mildred Bailey? ... It was good retired ?' thus: 'Yes/no. I retired, band, Norman, now live in Florida rules, buying conservation land to hear from licah Shapiro couldn't stand it and started a full time. She says she loves the for the town and planting trees.' Mellion, but l was sad to hear new business.' And to the ques­ leisurely life after 25 years as ex­ There is much more that could be that she, too, had lost her hus­ tion, 'What have you done that ecutive secretary in the school noted, as Hilda has been very band. He died in 1989. She was in you didn't anticipate?' he says: superintendent's office. Now he active in civic affa irs. Our the process of selling her house 'Became a spy, a fatherand an old volunteer for the BonaireNews congratulations! ...Nel s and and planned to find a smaller man, that's enough!' Ah, but and Views, a local monthly publi­ Kaye Monaghan Corey's son one. She has rwo children in there is more. In a personal note cation. She writes, 'My happiness Charlie is hockey and lacrosse Florida and four grandchildren. he writes that his dentist, now is with my husband, two children coach at Colby, so they are in licah does volunteer work at the dead, Dr. Maurice William, was and four grandchildren. They are Waterville a lot. I hope you all library, tutors and plays 'lots of responsible for his attending all wonderful!' Hope to ee you in read Kaye' last lener, which in­ bridge.' I've used my allotted Colby. Dr. William, also a social '92, Esther ....Harry Hicks and dicated that we have a real chal­ space, but keep the news coming theorist, was a famous scholar of his wife, Mary Louise, now live in lenge to make a substantial class and eventually I'll get it in." China who implanted in David Williamsburg, Va. He writes that gift on the occasion of our 50th at an early age a curiosity about in 1974 he sold out his interest in year in 1993 ....Glad to hear that country. As a result, when Hicks and Greish, Inc., a New from Albert and Patricia Ford he served in the OSS in Egypt York City advertising agency. He Ellis. They have moved to Florida and had a choice of where he then did some consulting, but but plan to be in Maine during 44 Louis M. Deraney wished to go next he chose French says he hasn't done anything parts of July and August. Pat says writes: "'When hall we three Indoch ina. David concludes, meaningful since Social Security that Al does some bookkeeping meet again, in thunder, lightning, 'This isone alumnus who is grate­ 'kicked in.' Until theend of l987, and she swims, crochets, takes or in rain?' That was the question ful for the Colby alumni publica­ he and his wife lived on Shelter lessons on the chord organ and put by Nancy Curtis Lawrence tion, for it gave me the opportu­ Island, where he served as trea­ plays the recorder. ...Jane Lodge when we met in Bremerton, nity to thank the son of my revered surer of the local hospital and was Stradley writes that she keeps Wash., last April, and it seemed Doctor.' (For more information on the town council. Now 'really occupied with farming and real appropriate, since there was a tor­ on this man and his son, Bob retired,' he spends his time play­ estate sales and rentals. She think nado in the immediate area and, William '36, see the Summer 1 990 ing golf, teaching power squad­ it is very important to keep busy Nancy said, 'it hailed ice as big as issue of Colby ). . . Elizabeth ron courses and working on his as we grow older. She lives in golf balls.' Your class secretary/ Archer Ricca, now widowed, is wooden boat, the Gulliver, which Maryland and has two dogs and correspondent had journeyed to retired from library work and sub­ has taken them on several inter­ five cats ....When last I heard the Seattle area to visit with fam­ stitute teaching and has turned esting trips, including an adven­ from her, Elizabeth Beale Clancy ily and informed Nancy of his to babysitting for grandchildren ture in Montreal via the Cana­ wa planning to visit her son Ben, presence. That was enough in­ and caring for adults with tempo­ dian and New York canal system. a lawyer and a lieutenant in the centive for her to travel from rary disabilities. She is also presi­ We hope you are already plan­ U.S. Navy stationed in Naples, Sequim to Bremerton and en­ dent of her town's historical soci­ ning a trip to Colby for our 50th, Italy ....Frank Miselis is now counter all the perils of nature. If ety, a member of the Historical Harry." retired from medical practice but she can do it so can you: 1994 is

40 Colby , August 1991 rapidly approaching. Let's have a money lawyer and how they op­ bang-up 50th reunion. Plan now! erate, Philadelphia's Common Bein Waterville in June 1994 .... Pleas Court Judge Charles A. I noticed in the '4 7 class notes Lord's name is mentioned. Could that Clayton Currier '47 is men­ that be the same Charlie '42 who tioned. Clayt and others have is married to our own Shirley defected from '44. Good to know Ellice Lord? ...As 1 was meet­ he's still around ....While I was ing the deadline for this column, traveling in the Northwest I was lo and behold, I received a post­ informed by my daughter, who card from Paris, France, where remained in Boston, that Joseph our bon vivant classmate, Ralph Robert Sage '49 Marshall tried to reach me via Braudy, had traveled. He in­ telephone. Sorry to have missed formed me that he'd be back to your call, Joe. Last I heard, you the Stares and Cape Cod, Mass.,

were practicing medicine in Port­ this summer. ... John Bliss has Headliners land, Maine ....James Whitten, reminded me of our association who now resides in Melbourne at the Army Corp of Engineer , Dr. Philip J. Boyne '46 received the H.W. Archer Award Beach, Fla., is retired from the where l worked as realty special­ forlifetime achievement ar the annual meeting of the Ameri­ Univer ity of Southern Maine. ist and John was in the executive can College of Oral and MaxillofacialSurgeons. The award is He and hi wife, Teresa, were offices.Neither he nor I was aware the highest honor bestowed by rhe group, and there have been both professors. Jim writes that that we were Colby classmates he likes to think he wa a good untilour 45th reunion ....!n eed only four previous recipients.... Colby trustee Robert Sage reacher who gave much support more input. Please write. I'd en­ '49 received the 1991 City of Peace Award from the tate of to professional groups involved joy hearing from Mitch Jawor ki Israel Bonds Committee. Presenting the award, Boston Uni­ in education, environment, '47 as well as others who do not versity President John Silber cited Sage for hi "civic and peace, literacy and world events. respond to queries in a timely professional leadership" and for hi wide-ranging contributions He says professors Wilkinson and fashion." in the area of charitable fund rai ing, community affairs and Fullam served as mentors and business in Massachusetts. models and er his sights toward becoming a profes or, too. Jim hasdone so wellar his job that his former students created the 45 "The !-est partof the Whitten Foundation for Lifelong job of being class secretary is re­ Newsmakers Leaming. Could one ask for a ceiving phone calls and letters better tribute? . . . Josephine Pitts from classmates," say Dorothy McAlary 1 i ves in Maine from May Sanford McCunn. "Each response administrative clerk in Jeanne Littlefield Hammond '49, to ovember and in Florida from I receive i a pleasant urprise. the Office of the Registrar at Colby, is president-elect of the December ro April. She is an­ You would be amazed to find our Maine Division of the American A ociation of University other retired reacher, who taught how anxiou everyone i for news Women. for 22 years and loved it. Jojo is of former classmates. Keep the astounded at the co t of attend­ letter and phone calls coming ing Colby. o am I. ...Kather­ in! ...The Rev. Robert Hol­ ine Howes Brooks is still a house­ comb has retired fromthe United wife, but Wendell is retired. They Methodist Church mini try. He Mileposts have been married for 4 7 years. ha erved in the pringfield/ Kay suggest that I shake new Chicopee Falls, Mass., area as well from reluctant classmates by say­ as others. He was also a chaplain Deaths: Lawrence P. Fitton '42 in Damari cotta, Maine, ing, 'I heard you passed away.' in various hospitals while attend­ at 74.. ..Carlyle L. Libby '44 in Damari'cotta, Maine, at Being the humorist thar she i , ing to hi parish respon ibilities. 69 ....Thurber E. Holt, Jr. '45 in Brun wick, Maine, at he won a few prize for writing While at Colby he sen ed two 68 ....Jacqueline Taylor Jacobs '45 in Philadelphia, Pa., at humorou poetry, ome of which churches, and when he attended 65 ....Kathleen McQuillan Lord '46 in Waterville, Maine, at ha been published.... On page Boston Univer ity for his enior 69 ....William Kershaw '4 7 in Belfa t, Maine, at 7 258 of The Million DollarLawyers year, he doubled his studies and Josephine Scheiber '47 in Wa hington, D.C., at 65. by Jo eph C. Goulden, a behind­ completed hi fir t year of -emi­ the-scene look at America's big nary at the ame time. He re-

Colby, Augu t 1991 41 REUNION '91 The Fewer the Merrier

A small---or should we ay "select"1-group of classmates Whitney paper mill wa going full steam across the Kennebec: 'To trekked to Mayflower Hill for the lass of l 946's 4Sth reunion in this day," Betty sa id, "whenever I mell sulphur I think of Colby." June. Nineteen class members and 12 gue ts were on hand to swap She went on to rai e tear in a few eyes with her reminiscences, storie and memories of the war years at Colby. including the time President Julius Seelye Bixler-who arrived at Of the 191 students who enrolled at Colby in 1942, only 71 Colby in 1942-said he would always consider himself a member graduated four years later, a statistic alluded to by Betty Scalise of the Class of 1946. Kilham, who emceed Saturday night's class dinner. Most of the Betty's speech brought on a round of (off-key) Blue Beetle men joined the armed services, Betty said, some leaving for good, songs, including "I'll Build a Bungalow Big Enough for Two" and some returning to graduate with other classe . Many women "O'Leary Was Closing the Bar." Everyone laughed about the time decided to attend classes year round and graduated with the Class Shirley Martin Dudley and her roommate, Nancy Loveland of 1945. Dennen '47, took the Blue Beetle downtown to the movies and "There wasn't much else to do but study, with all the men stayed to the end, defying a 9 p.m. curfew. The taxi driver who gone," said Nancy Jacobsen, who came from Atlanta, where �he brought them home extinguished his lights at the top of the Hill, is a freelance writer, to attend the fe stivities. and the two women crawled into a friend's window, only to be During the war, Nancy said, female students were housed on caught in the beam of a night watchman's flashlightand grounded Mayflower Hill and had to ride the old Blue Beetle bus to clas ; for a week. Shirley, still a rabble-rouser (and, with Chuck '45, the men lived in the College Avenue dorm , near the classroom parent of two Desert Storm warriors), spent a few minute at the buildings. "On May 11, 1945," she remembers, "the record was podium promoting a mini-reunion in Florida next February. ("We established for the latest snowstorm in Maine. It wa finals week. couldn't believe how many of u pend the winter there," one '46er We thought the roads were impassible and we wouldn't have to said.) Those interested hould contact Shirley for information. take our tests. Profes or [Gordon] Smith put on his snow hoe , The class handed out prizes to everal members, including walked all over campus getting exam forms from professors, Phil Boyne, who came the farthest (from Castro Valley, Calif. ), showshoed up the Hill with the exams and gave them in Runnals." and Connie Choate Trahan, who swept three categories-most

The weekend was made of memorie like that. Betty Kilham children (8), most grandchildren (17) and most pet (4 ) . Elizabeth brought down the house on Saturday with her opening remark, "B.A." Riker Howell, Joyce Theriault Howell and Margery which harkened back to the day when the Hollingsworth- Dodge Radomsky were congratulated for attending their first reunion. New cla s of. ficer were al o elected on Saturday. Betty Kil­ ham is pre idem, Shir­ ley Dudley i vice presi­ dent, Nancy Jacobsen is secretary/treasurer, the Alumni Council representative i Han­ nah Karp Laipson and the Cla s Agents are Phil Boyne and Jean O'Brien Perkins. The grand finale to the evening was a slide presentation pro­ duced and narrated by Cloyd Aarseth featur­ ing class memorabilia gathered over 45 years. Aftera lingering break­ fast in Dana on Sunday morning, classmember decamped for home, al­ Elizabeth "B .A " Riker Howell '46 (second from right) accepts congratulations on her team's second-place finishin ready looking forward Friday's golf tournament from Mae Tabor, Mark Burke '86, Monroe Howell and James Tabor '5 1. B.A. was to the big SOth reunion probably too gracious to mention that Monroe's team didn't even place .. in 1996.

42 Colby, Augu t 1991 ceived his docrorate from BU, life. Lina still hears from Jean where they boarded a Russian and he is a fellow of the Ameri­ Cannell MacRae '42 at Christ­ river boat for a two-week cruise 48 Kay Weisman Jaffe can Protestant Health Associa­ mastime .... l had a delightful down the Danube and ended up writes: "Bertha Graves Bagby tion, Chaplain Division. He has phone call from Adele Grindrod spending several days in Istanbul, Nollman wrote from her new spent 54 years in the ministry. He Bates, who filled me in on her Turkey, which i a shopper's de­ address (39 Somerset Road, and his wife of 52 years have four personal news. She is retired from light. Tom plays golfthree or four G lasronbury, CT 06033) that she married children, 13 grandchil­ rhephone company and lives with days a week and works two days a has been writing checks to Colby dren and one great-grandchild. her husband in Norwalk, Conn. week. He does demonstrations and cleaning the cellar (a per His summer home is in Phillips, They have one son, one daughter for variou products and food in green form that the first alpha­ Maine, and his winter home is in and two grandchildren. Their on post exchanges, department stores betical third of the class received New Gloucester, Maine. Robert's live in Farmingron, Conn., and and grocery stores. He reports that to give information for this issue) pare time is spent reading, writ­ has a master's in business admin­ an Diego has a new alumni club, and added casually that he wa ing, cooking and contemplating istration. Adele's daughter is a which helps him keep up with also going ro Elderho tel and get­ the things he feels he should do. nursing specialist working toward Colby. . ..Liz Hall Fitch writes ting married, lately. Best wishes The idea of no deadlines has be­ her master's at Yale and continu­ rhar he and John are both re­ from us to you, Bertha and come very appealing ro him after ing with her full-time job as a tired. She was a first-grade teacher spouse ! ... Heard also, I think so much activ ity ....Louise pediatric nurse. Adele spends her for 17 years, and John was on the for the first time, from Elizabeth Groves Holtan is retired after 30 spare time raking bridge lessons staff at MIT. They now live in 'Betty' Parker Forman in Ply­ years of teaching. She is in the (quire different from the bridge Cambridge. They keep busy with mouth, Mass. She reaches grades proce s of moving from Smith­ game we played at Colby ), at­ volunteer work and traveling. 1-4, has a minister-professor hus­ field, Maine, ro Portland. he has tending church activities and rak­ They both volunteer at Record­ band, now on sabbatical from four sons, two daughters and one ing Bible study courses. Her hus­ ing for the Blind, and she helps Wheaton, and three individual­ grandchild, all of whom have band keeps busy with many out at a public chool. John has istic sons. One is an aspiring ac­ given her great support after she hobbies, including managing a just finished writing an early his­ tor, one is in business and Peter lo t her hu band, Han , in 1988. nearby nondenominational chap­ rory of the Fitch family, which '80 is not only a representative in She spends a lot oftime on planes el. ... I received the sad news has involved several trips in this the Massachusetts Legislature visiting family members. One son from Ardis Wilkins Holt '46 that country and abroad. They have (General Court to the cogno­ was connected with West Point, her hu band, Thurber Holt, died been throughout New England, scente) but was recently elected another is a chemist and another on January 20, 1990. Our sympa­ to Ohio and several times to Eng­ minority leader. Her five grand­ started his own business. She at­ thy ro you, Ardis ....Roy K. land. In the last three yearsthey've children, all under age 6, have tends sports events with her sons Morell notified me that his also been to Japan, Germany, her guessing which will become and enjoys reading, knitting, driv­ mother, Barbara Kelly Morell, China, Mexico, the Caribbean fourth-generation Colby .... ing and crossword books. Good died very recently. He sends his and Switzerland. Liz and John Helen Knox Elliott, al o of Ply­ to hear from you, Louise ....I best regards ro all his mother's have foursons: a lawyer, two com­ mouth, wrote that Betty, Mary had a lovely response from one of classmate ." puter programmers and an inter­ Conley Nelson of Bridgewater my freshman roommates, Lina national businessman. They al o and Peg Clark Atkins were re­ Cole Fisher, who has had a busy have two daughters: a teacher cently at her home for a mini­ life. The mother of two girls and and an architect. They did some reunion ....Virginia 'Bobo' one boy and the grandmother of sailing with their second on in Brewer Folino and Francis 'Bud' five, she has spent a great deal of 4 7 JuneChipmanCoal­ the Caribbean in December of Folino sent a glorious phoro of time visiting foreign countries son write : "l wish more of you 1988. They say they will be at our the Sronington, Maine, harbor. with her hu band forhis consult­ would getnostalgic about our 4 5th reunion in '92 ....Dorothy ltwasoftheirviewfrom the rather ing busine . They have settled in reunion in 1992. Then maybe Cleaves Rodgers Jordan has re­ wrecky building they bought and southwest Florida but spend one you would send me some news. cently been vacationing in Puerre are restoring. By the time you month each year on Cape Cod Thank ro those whodid . . ..Tom Vallarta and wasplanningacruise read this they may be living over visiting friend , and Lina has kept Burke says he had such a good to the Caribbean last pring .... a post office, since they finished in touch with the local Tri Delt time at the last reunion that he i Arnie Kiessling Wills will be in rehabbing thefirst floor and leased Alumnae Club as well as the planning ro come again. He is Holland biking for a week with it to the P.O. The econd and Colby Alumni Club. She keeps still living in San Diego in a com­ three other grandmas in May. third floors were in the works, busy with swimming, volunteer munity known as Rancho Ber­ Then they will hike for another and they were looking forward to work, bridge, continuing educa­ nardo. With their four children week in Austria ....I was disap­ moving when their Vermont tion cour e and socializing with spread aroundCalifornia, Oregon pointed in the response to my last home sold. Their trips between friend . We mi sed her happy face and Indiana, he and Jan get in a request for news,but it is not roo the two places take them to her after she left Colby, but I'm glad lot of traveling. They had a fan­ late. Send your news for a future sister's refreshinghome in Water­ to hear she had such an eventful ta tic trip last July ro Vienna, column." ville frequently. They sound en-

Colby, August 1991 43 thusiastic as usual with their un­ he mentioned a community art­ Amo , and Tav says King would surprise to hear from Leonard usual five children and 14 grands ists' series that reminded me of have been sure it wa o written. Warshaver, who also 'began my despite war anJ its aftermath, re­ some great stuff at Waterville . I truly enjoy getting these de­ Colby experience at Hedman and cession and the real estate High during our Colby years. His scriptive and informative letters have all wonderful memories.' bust. ...A full and philosophi­ treasure of a Siamese cat and daily anJ your returned forms and Obviously I lost track of the fact cal 'holiday letter' arrived from care ofthe horses (now we're talk­ notes. Please let me hear from that some of our class had their Ev Helfant Malkin. She started ing Montana) abo keep h11n busy. you or there will be no column Colby career interrupted by it at an Elderhostel (seems to be And oh yes, wo- and gentle-per­ next time." World War 111 Lennie sold his replacing bird watching among sons, hall we start a di cussion busine s, Serra Mattress Co. of '48ers) in Arizona, where she was re: 'freshmen' and 'first-year sru­ New England and N .Y. State, in leamingabout Native Americans dents.' Howell wonders if women 1989 and retired this year. He has from Hopi people. Her large and (excu e it! ) really feel threatened. a new address: 13361 Provence scattered family had visited the ..Gilbert Taverner, '48's Rev. 49 "When l requested Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, Fl Wayland homestead overthe year Or. from Concord, Mass., howed new of those who had lived in 33410. He and his wife love to or had at least been in close con­ up on The New York Times letters Hedman ourfre ·hman year, I wa travel in Europe and the Far tact from Australia, New Hamp­ page. Seems Gil attended Bo ton thinking in term of women who East. ... Sid McKeen went back shire and Massachusetts. Ev vis­ University with Martin Luther had entered Colby in the fall of to Colby last summer and hecan't ited New Guinea during a King, Jr., to whom a quote was 1945 and lived in Hedman when get over all the changes. It is fo ur-month leave from fac ilitat­ attributed by the paper. In fact, it was briefly a girls' dorm," writes amazing, isn't it? Sid does com­ ing support groups for cancer pa­ the citation is from the book of Ann Hagar Eustis. "Imagine my mentaries on a regular basis for tients at Mass General. Now he the Maine Public Broadcasting and her husband, who celebrated Network. Wish I could hear them. his 70th birthday on the trip, If they are anything like 'Wry and should have also celebrated their Ginger,' his syndicated newspa­ 45th anniversary. (Please let me Correspondents per column, you Mainiacs are in hear if you've beaten them with a fora treat! Sid is also trying to put 50th.) Meanwhile, she visits her another book together, and he Vermont home, when possible, 1942. 1946 asks us to keep our collective fin­ to hear the coyotes, sense each Marie 'J/ ysor Nancy Jacobsen gers crossed .... Tom and Linda season and appreciate skillfully (Marie "Chris" Merrill) 3627 Northlake Drive Shaw Maguire went back to built and rugged old stone walls. RR 2, Box 190-B Atlanta, GA 30340 Colby forreunion in '74 and '84 Husband Sid, busily retired, must South Harpswell, ME 404-934-9075 and 'felt about like Columbus also be proud of theirdiligent and 04079-9802 would if he came back to accomplished brood ....Howell 207-7 29-6506 1947 America!' Tom is retired from Clement checked in from Mon­ June Coalson American Cyanamid and seems tana proudly reporting his build­ 1943 (June Chipman) to enjoy seeing Lin off to work ing ofa utility shed from his own Mrs. Albert R. Braunmuller 129 Janelle Lane each day. Lin has tried all the (Eleanor Smart) plan and with his very own roof Jacksonville, Fl 32211 unliberated '50's women's jobs­ trusses. He still had time to visit 115 Lake Road 904-725-1479 teacher, nurse, secretary-and L.A., camp and ride mountain Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 likes secretary just fine. 1990 was bikes in the Canadian Rockies 201-766-3586 a banner year forgrandc hildren­ 1948 and travel to Kentucky. At home, thei r first two grandsons and a Katharine W. Jaffe just south of Glacier National 1944 new granddaughter-making six {Katharine Weisman) Park, as beautiful as anyplace, Louis M. Deraney grandchildren in all if I counted PO Box 113 especially in summer, he has be­ 57 Whitford Street right. I am not quite sure how Lin Mill River, MA 01244 come a native in just three years. Roslindale, MA 02131-4210 finds time to work with their 413-229-8171 Contrasting local ideas about 617-327-4486 travel schedule over the past 15 wildlife with easternnature group months, which included Florida, thinking (or, why even beloved 1945 1949 the French Riviera, Paris and an wild animals must be kept in their Dorothy McCunn Anne Eustis Elderhostel trip to Wyoming, place), he also describes the local (Dorothy Sanford) (Anne Hagar) Hawaii (for Lin) and Italy. In economy in recession and says 8 Honey Hill Road 315 Mirick Rd. PO Box 594 June they were planning a trip to retirees are a real plus. The arts Canaan, CT 06018 East Princeton, MA 01 517 Alaska.... Lucile "Celie"Farn­ are not lacking in his area: be­ 203-824-7236 508-464-5513 ham Sturtevant writes with a plug sides concerts, chorales and all, for Colbiana's Cookbook, which

44 Colby, August 1991 Dust Off That Pritnitive

1991 May Be Your Year For a Gift of Art

It is worth repeating what we atd in an earlier i sue: J 991 is a good year w donate £hose highly apprecia£ed an works or o£her education­ ally re/ll[ed personal property to Colby .

Congress is helping with special legislation to assist donors of art. Prior to 1991 the appreciation element (capital gain) related to a gift of art was included in alternative minimum tax calculation . Often the very high gains associated with such gifts triggered an alternative minimum tax that was higher than the regular tax, and the higher value prevails. The table below illustrates clearly the $11,000 potential increase in taxes that would have been due under the old law. Since Congress ha tated that the appreciation element for gifts of art, in 1991 only, is nor to be included in alternati\·e minimum tax calculations, one can see, in the table below, that the regular tax prevails to the advantage of the donor:

Tax Year Your Adiusted Charitable Regular Tax Alt. Minimum Tax Gro - Income Deduction (Art) Liability* Liability (AMT)*

1991--0ld Law $300,000 $90,000 $4 1 ,500 $52,500 1991-New Law $300,000 $90,000 $41 ,500 $3 1 ,000

* You pay the higher of the regular or Alternative Minimum Tax Calcularions . Presume a joinc return;regular itemized deductions of 20 percenc c.f AG/. Preference income for AMT calculation includes capital apprecumon of 0% on !he an gifl and 5% of AGI for regular deducrions .

It seems unlikely that Congress will extend this window of opportunity beyond 1991. However, you do have the benefit ofcarryover ofdeduction for the next five years forgift made in 1991, ifnece sary, for gift with value that exceed one-year deduction limits.

Want more information? Pl.ease call, or send a postcard, with your phone number to: Eric Rolfson, Director of Major Gifts, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, Phone (207) 872-3223

should have hit the College book­ Chimenya, a Colby junior from Hancock, Vt., which is a very went back for our 40th reunion store by now. This has been com­ Malawi, over the Christma holi­ small town of 300+ and con e­ that he could hardly �ecogmze piled by the South Central Mas- day . he urges u to call the quently always has a lot of volun­ it. And the campus certainly ach use tts Colby Alumnae Admi sion Office if anyone can teer work to be done. She and her looked different, too! Lesleigh i Association, which is a very long help out in the exchange pro­ husband, Stanley, are very active another Hedmanite and ay , name for a club of Colby women, gram.... Ju ne White Rosenberg in the Methodist Church, and 'The two years spent at Hedman mostly from Boston Metro We t. has become a grandmother since Lesleigh al o works with Valley Hall were the happiest of my col­ Celie i currently pre idem, so she last wrote to u . June reports Community Care, which i in­ lege life. The upper campus was he pent ome time on this that when she went back to Colby volved with the elderly and handi­ pretty, but didn't have the close­ project. Celie also writes about forour 25th reunion, he mi ed capped. She finds both activitie ne of Hedman.'" the wonderfulexperience he and the train and Hedman Hall! ... very atisfying.Le leigh al o found her hu band had as ho ts to Ralph Lesleigh Amlaw Perry live in Waterville o changed when she

Colby, Augu t 1991 45 THE FIFTIES

'Our three kids, all over 30, are all ral sociery. Speaking of fortune­ spent much of 1990 traveling in 50 "Approximately a doing well and are still single, but telling, what's in the cards for our India and Thailand, including year has passed since somebody this is the '90s.' ...Ruth 'Rufus' 45th in 1995, Charmian? Hope panicipating in a meditation re­ twisted my arm to take on the job Pierce Abrahamsen and her hus­ you see a big turnout.... Just treat and doing volunteer work of class correspondent, and I must band, who has by now joined her enough news remains for one in a counseling center at a hospi­ say 1 have enjoyed it tremen­ in retirement, were looking for a more column in Colby. Keep the tal in Punjab. You certainly have dously, thanks to the great re- home in the Richmond, Va., area letters coming. Those of you who done ome very interesting things, ponse you gave to my letter and as of last November. Rufus has have contributed must have new Janet! ... Ben Sears was pre­ questionnaire," write Nancy taken up golf in place of writing a event to report, and those who sented the Businessperson of the Ricker Sears. " I do hope this col­ news column for the local paper haven't owe us a wee glimpse of Year A ward from the Bedford umn is serving to stimulate inter­ and serving as a buyer for the the scene ince the last time you Chamber of Commerce. He was est in the College and in the idea hospital gift shop. She and Fred thought about Colby and the cited for being a great family man of renewing old friendships in enjoy going to the theater, dining Class of '50. We want to hear and a businessman with careers 1995, if not before. If any of you out with friends and dancing to from all of you." in different fields and for taking would like the addresses of any the music of a Big Band from an active part in community af­ classmates who have contributed Huntsville, Ala. They still enjoy fairs. He was a founder and char­ to this column, please let me know jitterbugging, and it sounds as if ter president of the Bedford and I'll be glad to furnish them. I Rufus hasn't slowed down one Chamber of Commerce and has also have the addres es of any bit. ...Bob'Scotty'Olneywrite 52 "I have just returned served as director of the Greater others who have kept in touch interestingly about his four fasci­ from a meeting for our reunion," Boston Real Estate Board. As we with the Alumni Office.... Al­ nating daughters, two of whom says Barbara Bone Leavitt. "Pam all know, he has been most active len Pease has worked with Presi­ are horse trainers; another is a Alexander and Mary Porter from in Colby affa irs. He is involved dent Kenneth M. Curtis of the women's fashion executive and Colby were most helpful getting withtheColbyBook Award given Maine Maritime Academy as another is a ballerina who has us organized. We are all very ex­ annually to a Bedford High academy negotiator for collective performed with the Scotti h­ cited, and you will be hearing School junior. You truly deserve bargaining agreements and has American Ballet Company at the about plans ....Caroline Wil­ this honor, Ben! ...I am really assisted with the academy's capi­ Edinburgh Festival and with other kins McDonough, Ben Sears, out of class news and would ap­ tal fund drive. Allen and his wife, distinguished companies. He says Jan Pearson Anderson and my­ preciate hearing from you." Vi, are retired and living in Hollis little of himself and his wife, who self were there. Jesse James could Center, Maine. They both try to is 'an account clerk and mother not make it, and we missed help Maine state and local Demo­ of the above and any other strays, him ....Ja n told me that she and crats who are running for office. human, animal and bird who find Chuck Anderson '53 had just re­ Pamela, theiroldestdaughter, has our home.' Bob is retired, and as turned from a wonderful trip. 53 Nelson Beveridge a Ph.D. from the University of oflast October, when his message They stayed at an Elderhostel on writes: "Marty Friedlaender Southern California and is a vice was received, was recovering Jekyll Island in Georgia and then claims that this is the year of the president with TI-IN Network in beautifully from a hip replace­ went on to Florida and played sixties and that her classmates San Antonio, Tex. The Peases ment. The Olneys live on a beau­ some golf. While in Florida they Carolyn English Caci, Ginnie have a grandson and expected a tifulbay of Lake Michigan. With saw George Laffey and his wife, Falkenbury Aronson and Tommi second grandchild in May .... true Scottish optimism, he says Betty Winkler Laffey '53 .... Thompson Staples are passing Gerald Baker writes from Colts things are 'Not too bad. Could be Caroline had just come back from this milestone. Aren't we all! ... Neck, N.J., where he and Peggy worse.' Sounds pretty good to Puerto Rico and planned to visit Don White just retired from the live when they are not traveling. us ....Charmian Herd writes at England in June ....Speaking of staff of the Universiry of Idaho He mentions recent trips to Rus­ length of her long and varied ca­ trips, my husband, Bob, and I had after a 33-year career in forestry. sia, Scandinavia and New Mex­ reer in the theater. She has played our annual trip to Florida to see Along with his wife, Peggy, he ico. Gerry says, 'We lead a full character parts with Encore Al­ our fam ily. We had a great trip to has two Christmas tree farms and and comfortable life.' He runs ley Theater in Vero Beach, Fla., the Space Center and then vis­ a boat storage business on Lake periodically for political office on since the theater opened in 198 7. ited friends on Sanibel lsland­ Coeur d'Alene. He also spend the Township Committee (the Other leading roles have been even searched for shells at 2 time in Hawaii along with the town's governingbody) but can't with Riverside Theatre and Trea­ a.m.! ...Janet Hewins writes side trips to the Washington and win, as the voter registration is 7 5 sure Coast Opera Society, also in that she has lived in San Fran­ Oregon coasts each year .... percent against his party. 'But,' Florida. She does palmistry and cisco since 1974 and is a clinical Harold Cross is in semi-retire­ he says, 'I can bring pressures on card-reading for fun and profit. psychologist. She does a lot of ment from a medical practice as the present governing body, This summer she planned to tour work with children and is inter­ of December. He had a general which improves things for a pe­ Holland, Germany, Poland, Es­ ested in the interplay of learning practice in Hampden, Maine, for riod of time.' He goes on to say, tonia and Russia with a local cho- and emotional development. She 32 years and now work in the

46 Colby , August 1991 REUNION '91 Fair, Fun and 40

I f Mark Twain hadn'r bearen him to ir paign-amongotherthings. "It is said abour a hundred years ago, Sumner Fox that the best way to lead is by ex­ might have been tempred to precede his ample," rhe citation read, "and you arrival ar the Cla of 1951 's reunion bash certainly have et a fine example for wirh a relegram reading: "Reports of my the Colby community." death have been gready exaggerared." Nobody kept track of which class After spotting a Bosron Globe death member came the longe t distance or notice that seemed to consign Sumner to which the shortest ("Kershaw Powell a betrer place, Colby trustee Bob Lee won that one ever)' year!" said one alerted friends,including Warren Finegan, celebrant), bur Sherwin "Sonny" who howed up at reunion and informed Welson and Alan Mirken should the attendants at the Student Center thar probably have received a pri:e for Sumner wouldn't be needing hi- nametag. renewing old tie-. Although each ad­ That's funny, they aid, we just got hi· mmed tO craning his neck in the check this morning.Warren took a closer direction of Mayflower Hill from fast­ look at the Globe obituary-"wrong moving cars on I-95, thi- was the first Mar, Ellen MacJrn umner Fox. I'd mournedthe guy for ten Colby \·isit for each since graduarion. Cii,il \X'ar buff Maurice F. Rona)'ne combined his day ," aid Warren, who told umner and Warren Finegan would win a compe­ 40rh reunion with a day of research onGen. Benjamin other class members and ouest ar atur­ rition for frequency of reunion arten­ Burler, Colby 1838. day night's banquer thar he wa never so dance: he' been to all bur five since happy to be wrong abour anything in hi he lefr Colby. He says he ju t shows up and receive a plaque from his class, pre ented life. celebrares with rhe cla s of his choice! by Ernie Fortin, honoring him for the hall A for Bob Lee, the original bearer of As ir has in rhe pa r, the cla invired of fame award. the bad riding -nobody re\·oked the Dis­ Professor Don Koons and hi wife, Berry, to Al oat the aturday banquet, led by tingui hed Service Award he received on join in rhe weekend fesriviries. Koons said outgoing class president Joan Cammann Friday night forhis "exceprional com'l1it­ that since he arrived at Colby in 194 7, he'd Mcintyre, kudos went to Bob and Nancy ment" to Colby. Bob ha been active in alway felt a pecial affection for the '5ler . Nilson Archibald for their service on the Colby Clubs in Ma sachu em, i a former The retired geology profe sor kidded Ted reunion committee and for selecting the class agent, chaired rhe Alumni Fund Shiro, fre h from his induction into the Maine design forthe 40th reunion r-shirt. Danny Committee of the Alumni Council from Sports Hall of Fame, by implying that Shiro Hall organized a tribute to Bill Bryan '48 1971 to 1977 and erved on the Major hadn't quite covered himself with glory in rhe in recognition of Bill's special care and Gifts Committee of the Colby 2000 cam- classroom. Ted was surpri ed and pleased t0 coaching of rhe 194 7-4 fre hmm hockey team. Joining Danny in hi presentation were Bill Bailey '52, Chet Harrington, Jimmy Keefe and George Wales. The evening featured a nice mix of fun and memory sharing, but there was also time for bu iness-the election of

new class officer . Clifford "Bump" Bean was elected president, Ernie Fortin vice president, Harland Eastman ecretary/ trea urer, and Jane Perry Lindquist Alumni Council representative. Harland got a round of applau e for hi work a chair of the cla s' reunion fund-rai ing drive, which netted over 30,000. Business di pensed with, the class danced 'til midnighr t0 the music of a band led by Colby's director of major gifts, Eric Rolfson '73, and Matt Hartley '86 and ably assisted by Bump Bean on the bass fiddle Charles Mcintyre (right) leads his classmates in cheParade of Classeswhile his wife, outgoing class and Ed Laverty and Joan Mcintyre on presidentJoan CammannMcintyre, hoists the '51 sign. guitar.

Colby, August 1991 47 emergency room in Fort Kent in Portland. I get together with ever in his own business (he's an Monday and Tuesday, with the Mary Jane Fitzpatrick Cashman 54 "A new COLBY sign agent for related lines of petro­ re t of the week off. ...Gil often in Portland. Frank Totman has been painted on the grass leum and chemical equipment). Tallmadge is 'still located on visited us a few weeks ago when near the track where l and nu­ They have three boys-one mar­ Florida's suncoast and able to he was in Augusta.' ...The best merous others walk every day," ried, none at home, all, in Betsy's enjoy fishing and sailing. Haven't part of this job is hearing from notes Marlene Hurd Jabar, bring­ words, well and contented with won the lottery so still have to you all and learninghow well you ing faraway classmates upto date their career choices. Their young­ work as an administrator at a are doing. As we all approach on Mayflower Hill happenings. est, Todd, graduated from Colby multi-specialty physician's group. those sixties let's all tart making She is also please to report: "I did in '88 and is a class agent, lucky Health remains good, the job is plans on what we want to do at hear from enough of you to write guy. Betsy ends by saying that interesting and this is a great area our 1993 reunion, and let's not another column ....David and they keep in touch with Colby for outdoor sports. Best of all, l forget to give to the Alumni Betsy Powley Wallingford write friends Ellie Shorey Harris '57 have nine grandchildren.' ...Dot Fund." that Dave is working harder than and Jack and Ann Burnham (Forster 'S4) and Roger Olson Deering, both'55, and, ofcourse, have the best of both worlds, brother Mark 'S9 and his wife, spending their winter at the Ten­ Lorraine "Larry" Walker Pow­ nis Club in Fort Lauderdale, sum­ ley, who are ahead of them with mers at their Monson, Maine, all kids married and rwo grand­ cottage playing golf at the Correspondents sons! Mark and Larry's grandsons Piscataqua Golf Club and the are now 2 l /2 years old and 3 balance of theyear in Kansas City, months old. Larry volunteers Mo. Sounds great to me! ... Alan 1950 1955 three days a week in special edu­ Whittaker reports the following: Nancy Sears Ann Ingraham cation at the local elementary 'LeftColby in 'S 1 for four years in (Nancy L. Ricker) (Ann S. Dillingham) school and ings in the church the Air Force, back in 'SS and 31 Sweetwater Avenue 9 Appletree Lane choir. They are looking forward graduated in 'S7. Married, with Bedford, MA 01730 Manchester, ME 043Sl to saihng in the British Virgin four daughters all on their own. 617-275-7865 207-622-0298 Islands after visiting their eldest Got my M.B.A. in '67 and went son, Steve, and his wife in Florida. inro hospital management in New 1951 1956 I just read Caribbean by James A. York City and Englewood, N.J., Harland Eastman Mrs. C. MacDonald Grout Michener, so I envy them . . .. and then CEO of my own Fairfax, P.O. Box 276 (Eleanor Edmunds) Arthur Eddy sounds fantastic! Va., hospital. Retired in '89 to Springvale, ME 04083 RD 3, ] ones Road He has been elected to the Board Valley Forge, Pa., where l work 207-324-2797 Gouverneur,NY 13642 ofTax Review (beating a Repub­ part time in real estate (Coldwell 31S-287-3277 lican in a heavily Republican Banker).' . ..Joan Rooney 1952 town). He is about to become 1957 treasurer of an organization to Barnes sent a great note, and I Barbara Leavitt Brian F. Olsen promote Salisbury, Conn., where will quote portions of it: 'Charlie (Barbara J . Bone) 46 Washington Drive he lives. Art says his life is full and and I moved to Winthrop, Maine, 21 Indian Trail Acton, MA 01720 exciting .... Philip Reiner­ last September. l retired from Scituate, MA 02066 508-263-9238 Deutsch writes from Los Angeles teaching, and Charlie is practic­ 617-545-4374 ing law in Augusta. Helen that he is now a travel clerk in the Koniares Cleaves and Ann 1958 passenger services office at 1953 Burnham Deering '5S sold our Andria Kime Amtrak. This means that he an­ J. Nelson Beveridge Cape Elizabeth house before the (Andria H. Peacock) swers questions, makes train an­ 134 Border Street market crash. Our "new home" is 737 TurnpikeStreet nouncements, dispatches feeder Cohasset, MA 02025 a 188-year-old cape on fouracres Stoughton, MA 02072 buses from incoming train , books 617-383-1712 of land. The kids are taking care 617-344-8419 inconvenienced passengers in of themselves-John is a munici­ hotels, etc. In other words, he pal bonds trader on Wall Street 1954 1959 keeps occupied! ...Allen Sand­ and lives in Chappaqua, N.Y.; Marlene Jabar Susan Frazer ler and wife Abby have been en­ Peter is service manager atStrouts (Marlene E. Hurd) (Susan K. Fetherston) joying Florida for 20 years now. Point Wharf Co. in South 11 Pleasantdale A venue 6 Bellevue Place Their oldest on graduated from Freeport, Maine, and live in Waterville, ME 04901 Middletown, CT 06457 Harvard Business School, their Lisbon Falls; Amy is an invest­ 207-873-44 71 203-346-8137 daughter passed her C.P.A. and ment broker with A.G. Edwards their youngest son has joined the

48 Colby , August 1991 hotel business and 'someday will be another Hilton.' Have you no­ ticed how our focushas switched from ourselves to our children, and for some lucky ones, to our grandchildren (we have seven)? ...Mrs. George Chamberlin (Diane) Starcher, with her re­ For the Love of Theater sponsibilities as auxiliary board member in the Baha'i faith in The Cameo Theatre in Old Greenwich, Conn., is dark this summer. But come fall,patrons of France and Greek-speaking the venerated community theater can lookforward to another socko season. And that is thanks Cypus, is logging more miles than in large part to Caroline Wilk.ins McDonough '52. ever-three trips to Cyprus in McDonough would be the first to deflect the credit. Talk to her about her tenureat the theater 1990, fe aturing a hop over to Haifa, Israel, by ship in June for a (she has served as Cameo'spresident and executive producer ince 1983) and she will tell you about three-day pilgrimage and a visit the hard work of the all-volunteer casts and crews, the tremendous community support, the with friends and several trips to kindness of local reviewers, even her husband's willingness to put up with her 12-hour workday . Corsica to consult with rhe com­ But when McDonough took the helm at Cameo, it was a dying-on-the-vine enterprise. Now mittee preparing the last year's it turn a modest profit, getting by on ticket ales while other community theaters are begging for Baha'i Mediterranean Confer­ foundationgrants or folding. ence in Basria. She has 10 French She has worked her magic with a mixture of toughne , faith and enthusiasm.Before every and six Cypriot assi tants. With play begins rehearsal, she gather the participants and delivers a lecture: "1 tell them that the final no snow or skiing last winter, she week before opening night, their live are mine," she says, "that if we have to rehearse until one joined a sports center for general fitness and weight lifting-won­ o'clock in the morning,we ll, I'm sorry. If they work hard enough in the early rehearsal , they won't derfulas an antidote to stress, she have to be here until one a.m. during tech week [when the sets are up and everyone i in costume]." says. Diane participates in many "Cameo is known forhaving high standard ," McDonough says. "Some groups overstress, I activities with friends in Cham­ think, 'the good time we're having.' Our stress is definitely on the quality of the production; the bery, France, where she lives, as goodtime comes on the side." What she hopes Cameo provide i a profes ional-quality experience. well as picnics, swimming in "You've got to let other people have a free rein, within the confines of what the director sees as the nearby lakes and biking excur­ show," she says. "People who do the lighting, costume , set design should be able to show their sions in the warmer seasons, walks expertise. If things aren't going right, then the director has to step in." and cross-countryskiing when it's McDonough cannot remember a time when she wasn't acting. Her father, a Boston colder. Last summer she visited accountant, was an amateur actor and a published playwright. She took to the stage first at age 5 one of her mother's dear friends and has rarely left it since. "The longe t I haven't been involved in a how was ix months," she in Illinois and returned to San Clemente to join part of the says. And she passed the acting bug down to her daughter, Elizabeth "Lisa" McDonough O'Neill Trauger family, Sue, John and '80, who acted in Cameo's production of The lmportanceof Being Earnest. Adam, on vacation, to be present In 1985, in a gesture that captured her reverence forher parents, the stage and the alma mater for the first birthday of her first she has served m various capacities for four decades, McDonough donated a new lighting system grandnephew, Tommy, and for a for Strider Theater and dedicated it to her parents. wonderful visit with her cousin, McDonough's resume is spnnkled with professional credits: afteracting in every play but one BobChamberlin (CaptainUSN), during her four years at Colby, she did summer stock in Maine, was hoste of a radio interview and all his family when they program in Monterrey, Mexico, while husband Dick was posted there forGeneral Electric, tudied stopped for a day en route home at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and acted there with the prestigious Questers to Coronado, Calif." troupe, playing Volumnia in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. But McDonough says she is delighted with life as a non-professional. "There are millions of people who dream of doing wonderfulroles, and there are only hundred who make it, profession­ 57 "Good news, folks," ally," he ays. "Ofthe millions who tart out, how many get to do such thing as the p ychiatrist says Brian F. Olsen. "There is in Agnes of God or Lady Bracknell in The lmportance of Being Earnest? For me thi has been a news, and lots of it, thanks to all wonderful way to go, because I've had both marriage and career. One can have fantastic role and of our classmates who took the direct fantasticshow . You just give up the lights of Broadway." rime to return the briefquestion­ naire. To date I've received about

Colby, August 1991 49 REUNION '91 '56 Gathering Beats the Band

he Class of 1956 kicked Band and everyone sport­ off its 35th reunion week­ ing blue and white umbrel­ end with a "pre-reunion" las, the class made a splashy from Wednesday to Friday entrance into Saturday's at the Samoset Re ort in alumni parade to the strains Rockport. "The oceanside of "Hail, Colby, Hail" and setting defied description," other fractured favorites. said Hope Palmer Bramhall, New Colby Board ofTrust­ who added that her class ees chair Larry Pugh, John may be the first to tack such "Jube" Jubinsky, Dave an outing onto the reunion Sortor and Peter Lunder schedule. Charles "Pen" presented President Cotter Williamson '63, a former with the class gift, a $52, 108 Colby administrator, took check for the Alumni Fund, Mary Ellen Macava several members of the class which, combined with capi- on a tour of the Hurricane Jane Collins '56 toots out "Hail, Colby , Hail" in the '56 All-Kazoo Band. ral gifts, set a record for Island Outward Bound fa­ giving by a reunion class at cility, where he is vice president for development. $509 ,808. (Generosity eems a hallmark of the class-Colby's new The sun continued to shine once the group reached May­ admissions building will be named for benefacrorsPeter and Paula flower Hill (with four ministers in attendance, Frank Huntress, Lunder.) Robert "Brownie" Brown, Bob Raymond and Tom Hunt '54, the After the presentation and lobster bake there was time for chance of rain seemed pretty slim), and classmates who hadn't sports (Don Kupersmith was voted "Mr. Legs" at the tennis made the pre-reunion arrived. In all, 76 classmates, spouses and tournament) and for informal sharing of news. Warren '57 and friends attended, and for some, including Chris Layer Larson, Babs Faltings Kinsman are living in New Hampshire, where Babs Vashti Boddie Roberts and Don Vollmer, the 35th was their first works for Project Self-Esteem, a high school drug and alcohol reunion. For Sally Fricke Oesterling it was a sentimental journey awareness program, and Warren (who was in rare form all week­ indeed. Now living in Maryland, Sally hadn't been back to Colby end) put up with her bringing students home. Jean Pratt Moody, since graduation. She was among many members of the class who who earneda doctorate in counselor education a few years ago, was remembered when some of the more impressive trees were hip­ about to move into a new, oceanside home in Cape Elizabeth, high saplings. Maine. Jube Jubinsky earned some ill-disguised envy-and the With Joan Williams Marshall conducting the '56 All-Kazoo award for the classmate who came the farthest for reunion-by mentioning that he practices law in Honolulu. Ron Sandborg, now work­ ingforChampion Internationalin Wis­ con in, brought a unique slant on the Gulf War-his daughter served in Desert Storm with the Army. Class marshal! Kathy McConaughy Zambello and husband Lou '55 were pleased to report their relocation from the West Coast to Amherst, Mass., where they are renovating an old house. Classmates also enjoyed Saturday night's dinner at the Joseph Spa and the dance that followed. Kudos went to Dave Sortor for his work on reunion planning, and new class officers were elected. Jean Pratt Moody will serve a president, Peter Lunder is vice presi­ dent, Ellie Edmunds Grout is secre­ Mary Ellen Matava tary/treasurer and Kathy Zambello is Wilbert and Vashri Boddie Roberts '56, who was attending herfirst Colbyreunion, catch up on things Alumni Council representative. with Dodi Aikman Adel '56 and Robert Adel '56.

50 Colby , August 1991 .....L

Coming to a Mailbox Near Yo u J

Do Colby alumni regard their liberal arts educations as valu­ tenure as president," Cotter writes. "Today, as our faculty and able, lifelong assets? Do they use the training they received to trustees update the strategic plan for the 1990s, it is particularly advance in their chosen fields? How have the career choices of important that we have your feedback and thoughts. As a result, Colby graduates changed in the past decades? Do large numbers of we will be sending this census to the entire Colby alumni family alumni continue to teach, do social work and practice medicine, over the next several months. or are increasing numbers now going into industry, finance and "As a Colby alumnus/a, you have an important perspective law? on the College's past, its current stature and its direction for the Those are some of the questions the College hopes to answer future. We will greatly appreciate a few minutes of your time to as it begins the final phase of an alumni information project this help shape tomorrow's Colby." summer. The first component of the project-publication of an "The information will be invaluable to the College in alumni directory-was completed last year. Now, after a two-year assessing the alumni body's perspective on their liberal arts educa­ process of writing, editing and oliciting opinion from various tion, the value of their Colby experience and their links to the College constituencies, the Office of Development and Alumni College," notes development vice president Peyton R. "Randy" Relations is poised to deliver on phase two: the alumni census. Helm. "It will also provide a valuable tool for the Office of Career All Colby alumni will receive a copy of the census in the mail Services in advising students about career paths and opportunities during the next 18 months, along with a letter from President Bill and for the Admissions Officeand Alumni Council in communi­ Cotter urging them to cooperate in the project. cating with alumni about legacy admissions policies." "We last surveyed our alumni in 1980, when I began my

40 replies, and I'm still getting Eleanor Ewing Vigue and Guy from Mac, whose youngest is a become the owner of Oakland one or two a week. Keep them hosted the first planning meeting junior at Middlebury, and whose (he's currently developing 15 coming, and we can go on for our 35th reunion. Mark your wife, Dottie, is at UMO finishing downtown blocks of the city), indefinitely! ...Theoverwhelm­ caiendarnow:June5-7, 1992! . . . her requirements for a degree in while Gaby is busy with volun­ ing sentiment voiced by those Mac Blanchard must have been history ....Shirley Transue teer work in the arts, as well as who wrote indicated that this is waiting, pen in hand, forthe ques­ Cram wrote a nice note from serving as president of the San not a 'retiring' group of people. tionnaire, for no sooner had it Avon, Conn., where she has lived Francisco Craft and Folk Art Everyone is busy with careers/ been mailed than his response for the last l 7 years. Prior to re­ Museum. Seriously, Glenn is vocations, and only a couple of arrived in my mailbox. Mac says turning to Avon, Shirley spent heavily involved in getting Oak­ classmates mentioned that they he hopes he never retires-but l seven years in Puerto Rico. Shirley land back on its feet after the were looking forwardto the slower think he's been in semi-retire­ is a math tutor and presently works October '89 earthquake. Though pace that comes with retirement. ment all along. The folks up with 15 students a week in sec­ not yet retired, they are looking ...Our former class president, around Newcastle and Damari­ ondary math and SAT prepara­ forward to that timein a few years Guy Vigue, apparently tried re­ scotta just keep paying him to be tion. Shirley sings with the Hart­ when they can do a lot more tirement but didn't last too long Mac Blanchard. Maybe his being ford Chorale and has been its sailing. Maybe Gaby and Glenn and bought the Pine Incense director of the First National Bank treasurer for 13 years. She still can lead a contingent of folks Company. He is now working of Damariscotta has something sings in the church choir and a from the West Coast back for our harder than ever. Guy writes that todowithit. That probably didn't localecumenical choir ....Glenn 35th next year! ...Ji m and he was always a hippie at heart hurt his real estate development and Gaby Krebs Isaacson send Eleanor Jones Rogers are still in (we knew that), and now he's and appraisal business either. word from the Left Coast about Salem, N.H., retired only from finally joined them! ... In April Anyway, it' always good to hear their busy lives. Glenn is about to parenting (and I thought that

Colby, August 1991 51 never enJed!). Jim is still with ome of those old friendships and Raytheon, and Eleanor contin­ bring some of those great memo­ ue her town and church activi­ ries hack where they can be en­ ties. Both are indulging in that joyed. promise that you anJ lcm I William Haggett '56 great rastime that is now part of of other folks will be glad that you many of our lives-spoiling the did! 'Til next time ...." grandchildren! When retirement Headliners does come, Jim and Ellie are con­ sidering moving to western New Benjamin Sears '52 was named business person of the Hampshire ....Jo celyn Lary 58 "One of the many year by the Bedford(Mass.) Chamberof Commerce.... Jennie Mostrom writes of a busy life in pleasure of this position is re­ Davis Brown '55 was appointed director of the re idential Maryland, working hard with her ceiving phone calls out of the treatment center of Graham-Wind.ham Services to Families doll-making and designing busi­ blue from many of you with que - and Children in Hastings-on-Hud on, N.Y.. . . William ness. Jo is the recipient of na­ tions and wonderful new ,"writes Haggett '56 received the Navy League's Nimitz Award forhis tional awards for her rorcelain Andria Peacock Kime. "Judy "exemplary contribution to U.S. maritime strength and na­ dolls and Santas and writes that Spall called from Waltham, Mas ., tional security" as pre idem and CEO of Bath Iron Works in they are featured in Neiman­ to say she and Mary Harrington Maine ....Je an Pratt Moody '56 and Jane Whipple

Marcus stores at Christmastime. Chase were leavmg for China on Coddington '55 were named Colby overseers .... James R. Jo and retired FBI husband Phil March 20. Buzz Chase gave this Mcintosh '59 was honored by Lehigh University for 25 years are the parents of three boy , the trip to Mary for her 55th birth­ of service in the Department of Social Relations, which he youngest st ill in high school. ... day ! Judy had hoped to look up chaired from 1981 to 1990. Congratulations to cla smate Warren Weitzman in Hong Allan van Gestel, who was Kong, but my records have him in elected an over eer by the Colby New Hampshire now ....Lud­ Newsmakers trustees this past January. Allan mila Winter Hoffmancalled from is more active than ever with his Cambridge, Mass., where she has David Miller '5 1, president of Geraghty & Miller, lnc., law practice and has completed a resumed a fu ll-time psycho­ a leading toxic-waste d isposal firm, was quoted in a recent Wall book (yet to be published) oppos­ therapy practice with her hus­ Street Journal article on the trials and tribulations of the ing the death penalty. His work band, Herbert. They specialize in Superfund clean-up effort. Miller compared attempts to flush representing a young man on therapy forcouples. Mila said she carcinogenic chemicals out of water supplies to removing soap death row in Florida was the just resigned from her academic froma sponge. "You can wash it out 10 or 12 times, but there's stimulus for the project. Allan is appointment at the Mass. School till some soap left," he aid ....Brookfield (Conn.) High also chair of the Boston Bar Asso­ of Professional Psychologists. It's School students quoted in an article in the Danbury News­ ciation Task Force on drug and been a very busy time for her, Times said it was good to see Assistant Principal Frank Gavel the court .... I'm sure you no­ including writing and publishing '51 back at his desk after his recoveryfrom brain surgery last ticed in the 'Mileposts' section of a book, OldScapes , New Maps: A spring--even if he is the guy who metes out punishments. the last issue the death of Jay Mod.elfor Training Psychotherapy "When he was gone, it was just so empty without him," one O'Brien. Jay's daughter Angela Supervisors . She and Herbert are studenr told the paper. "He is strict, but he's also got a great wrote of his sudden passing on working on the issue of world sense of humor." ... Arthur Goldschmidt '59, professor of January 5, mentioning that at the peace, specifically, 'reclaiming our Middle East history at Penn State/University Park, lectured on time of his death, Jay was still beautiful, abused planet.' They "The Gulf War: A Historic Look at the Future" at Penn State's working at Travelers, was still have adopted a whale named Pe­ Hazleton campus and at the University of NorthernColorado very much involved with the gasus. I remember Mila-she and last spring. Goldschmidt's A Concise History of theMiddle East, National Ski Patrol and still had Herb stood out on the dance floor used as a basic text by colleges and univer ities across the a great love for Colby ....As you at our 25th reunion! ... Janet country, is due for its fourth reprinting this year and will can easily tell, I'm not a quarter of Pratt Brown called on her way to include material on the Gulf War. the way through my pile of let­ England, where she was touring ters, but this is all they'll let me with her mother. This is a travel­ Mileposts print, so I'll take a break here ing class. She and Dave spent a until the next issue. Although couple of months traveling Deaths: James S. Hall '50in Dallas,Tex., at64.... Alan through Japan.... Word trick­ there is plenty more to come, H. Stoney '50 in Stoughton, Ma s., at 61. . . . Haddon S. there is still a big group out there led up from West Hartford, Fraser '5 1 in Haworth, N.J., at 61. ...Vincent A. Serpa '56 Conn., where there was a mini from whom we haven't heard in in Indianapolis, Ind., at 56 . . ..Gary S. Poor '58 in Worces­ years, ome ofyou not since gradu­ Colby gathering of Colleen and ter, Mass., at 54. ation. Let's reconnect, renew Bruce Blanchard, Bob and Beryl

52 Colby , August 1991 Scott Glover, Cici (Clifton '6 l) He describes Barbara as his confi­ year teaching English and direct­ future date .... I wa bold enough and Norm Lee, David and Lois dant and best friend. They love to ing the college counseling office to call Wendy (Ihlstrom '61) and Munson Morrill, Lynne travel, so let's hope they make it at Tilton School, a small, private, Bob Nielsen the other night and D'Amico McKee and my hus­ to the reunion ....Jane and Larry co-ed boarding school in central had a long chat with Bob. He band John and I. Wonderful con­ Cudmore moved back to Bar­ New Hampshire. He says they keeps on the move despite a versation, tories, laughter and rington, Ill., afteran exciting and have just written their final col­ health incident la t fall of the food were shared. Did I hear Bruce refreshing five years in Toronto. lege tuition check, which means 'sort that gets your attention,' as say this was his first erotic brunch? They have fourchildren and three they are thinking of'kissing frogs' he said. He is now in good health Well, Norm and Cici-you take 'joyful' grandchildren, Larry says, and looking at houses (I guess we and paying attention to what he that one! ...Cynthia Gardner adding that grandparenting is all all do lots of the same things, but does. Bob owns his own insur­ Bevin's son Douglas married a that it is made out to be! Jane says not necessarily in the same or­ ance business and is also chair of Parisian girl in Paris last summer. it is reiuvenating .... More news der). Private schools often pro­ the Parks and Recreation Com­ Eighteen went to the wedding coming. You are an amazing, vide great housing, but Al says mission of the City of New from the U.S., and there was also wonderful class1 Send ideas for that 'eventually the feeling that Caanan, Conn. Bob and Wendy a reception back home. 'Very our 35th1" there's no place to call yours fi­ are coastal travelers, dividing their expensive to marry off our nally catches up.' Staying young recreational time between places son!' ...Peter and Mary Ellen is part of the job when you're in on the Connecticut ;,hore and Chase Bridge, both professors at secondary education, but, taking the Maine coast . ... Franny Champlain College, had a year of 59 "The class busybody no chances, Al officiates and O'Donnell Rando lives in celebrations in 1990, including has been at it again," admits Su­ coaches soccer as well as other Stoneham, Mass. She considers their 30th wedding anniversary, san Fetherston Frazer. "Fir t and sports ....Gail Bowers Williford herself a 'rare breed.' Her hus­ Peter's 60th birthday and their most prominent on the list of of Athens, Ga., teaches in the band likes an 'orderly home,' and daughter Lisa's wedding. As their class loyalists are Bill and Dottie Chapter 1 Program, working with that's what she runs. She is very son works in and tours the Ori­ Reynolds Gay, our cla s arm­ first-graders who are slow ro de­ involved in volunteer projects ent, the Bridges have had their twisters, who have been doing a velop and/or economically disad­ related to the two of her four share of travel. Peter continues to fabulous job keeping our class on vantaged. She finds it immensely children who are still in high have his gigs with a Dixieland the Alumni Fund map. Bill re­ rewarding work, even though the chool. An immediate preoccu­ jazz band. Oh, fond memories .... tired from the stock brokering alary scale in Georgia leaves pation when she wrote was her Congratulations to Joan Muir business fouryear ago. Since then something to be desired. Gail met daughter' upcoming wedding. Hocking, now associate profes­ he has turned his attention to her husband, a high school Franny says that she runs a lot of sor of English at Penn State. She two things: refining his skill as a teacher, on a tennis court in Hei­ stairs, reads, doesn'tseem to have said she's still grading freshman pianist and doing what pleases delberg, Germany, where she was a lot of spare time and likes going themes and uses the computer a him in his woodworking shop. working in the Army School. to Nova Scotia and Bermuda .... great deal in class to teach com­ Dottie says that 'life gets filled up They have two teenaged boys Lauris Reid Bonin just made it position. Joan had a wonderful with things' (isn't that true! ), and who, by 1994, shouldn't prevent under the wire for this column. opportunity to travel with her she is working on orring them Gail from getting to our 35th Lauri and her hu band were both husband to Bangkok, Thailand, out. The Gays' garden has taken reunion .... After having a ter­ teachers bur have now finished when Ralph gave a paper at Pa­ a hit and has been reduced to rific all-afternoon lunch with that phase and are involved in cific Basin Finance Conference. flowers and a little salad. Dottie Mary Jane Davis Smith in De­ other thing . Lauris is very in­ After visits to Hong Kong and has managed to learn what she cember, I've decided I'm going to volved with church activities and Hawaii they stopped in San Fran­ needs to about tap dancing and do more of that. A likely candi­ now serves as a deacon. Over the cisco, where she saw Angela the cello, is deep into the art of date is Pat Black Mullarkey, who years Lauris has held an assort­ DeCarlo and Ginny True Mas­ making patchwork quilts and is lives very near Middletown. Pat ment of jobs, including working terson. 'It was a wonderful expe­ ready to take on the task oflearn­ has five children who are 'in, in as an aide in a preschool class for rience to pick up where we left off ing to speak a foreign language the middle and out of school'; children with multiple handicaps. all those years ago.' ... Barbara fluently (she didn't say which none is married yet. Pat works in The Bonins have two children: (Borchers '60) and Douglas one). The Gays have a boat, a the data processing department Heather, a Tri Delt at William Davidson hailfrom New Vernon, pair of West Highland terriers of the Travelers Insurance Com­ and Mary, and John, soon to de­ N.J., where he is vice chair and and truee grown children. The pany in Hartford. To celebrate part for college and leave the president/COO of Newark Man­ children will all be home on Long their 25th wedding anniversary, Bonins freer to get away from agement, Inc. They currently Island this ummer, and the par­ Pat and her husband went to Ire­ their Allendale, N.J., home and spend 40 percent of their time at ents are looking forward to land not too long ago. Both Pat their South Chatham, Mass., their townhouse in the George­ that .... I have news of Justine and Gail (see above) keep in summer place forplaces farther town section ofD.C., and winters 'Brownie' (Brown '60) and Al touch with Melba Metcalf afield." are spent in Stratton, Vt., kiing. Gengras. Al is finishing his 25th Boynton, about whom more at a

Colby, August 1991 53 THE SIXTIES

has been pursuing her interest in said he planned to run in his third committee rewriting the zoning 60 "Our class will very history as a lineage research chair Boston Marathon this past April master plan forhis city or reading much miss Helen 'Penny' Mar­ for the DAR and is also looking and had just finished reading the latest from fiction writer Rob­ tin Lucier," writes class corre­ for a career change. Judy has spo­ Rough Justice by David ert B. Parker '54, Ed is still con­ spondent Katherine P. White. ken with Janet Clark Fox, who is Heilbroner. ...When running quering the highest peaks in New "Penny died of a rare form of lung still in education in the Spring­ around Londonderry, Jim may England (he mentioned that past cancer last fall in Massachusetts, field, Mass., area, and Barbara occasionally see Dick and Mar­ president Bill Chase is really slow­ where she and her husband, Dick, Borchers Davidson, who lives in jeanne Banks Vacco. Jeanne ing down when 'going up') .... have lived for many years. Penny New Vernon, N.J., but spends a writes that her combined pursuits One of the 'pithiest' responses taught kindergarten from 1970 to lot of time at a second place in of teaching in the graduate social came from Dean Shea, a teacher 1979 and was active in raising Washington, D.C., for business work program for Springfield and lifelong resident of East funds to fight cerebral palsy. reasons.... And l am 'retiring' College and completing a disser­ Millinocket, Maine. Most of the Dick's business responsibilities after five years as chair of the tation forher Ph.D. have left her information could be corrobo­ have caused him to travel a great board of our county crisis-inter­ with nothing called 'spare time.' rated but some of it I'll present in deal, including the nine years he vention agency, although I will Many of those mentioned in this Dean's own words for authentic­ and Penny lived in London. still be on the phone lines. Send column helped Professor Vacco ity. Family members include wife While she was in England Penny me news--or I may report hear­ surprise Jeanne at a 50th birthday Sandra, a pharmacy technician; traveled extensively around the say!" bash. After Jeanne gets her Ph.D., married son Dennis and daugh­ world, both with Dick and with a we'll have to make clear which ter-in-law Susan, who are the group of friends from England. professor we're referring to. parents of the first grandson, Tay­ Penny's and Dick's daughter, Daughter Kristen, 20, a junior at lor; married daughter Laura and Kate, graduated from Colby and 62 "Sometimes, when Plymouth State College, was se­ son-in-law Jim; and daughter lives now in Cambridge, and their the pile of returnedquestionnaires lected as Homecoming Queen last Paula, who graduated from Bates son, Jim, is in San Francisco. I is reduced to a handful and I'm fall and son Jeffrey, 22, graduated in May. He answered the ques­ remember Penny's warmth and struggling to get out from under a from Curry College last spring tion about changes in his life and open friendliness at Colby. She pile of my own year-end educa­ after an outstanding football ca­ the effect they've had on him by exhibited her sense of the joy of tional reports, I think about just reer. Thanks for taking time to writing, 'A moose died in the life and the humor of many situ­ skipping the ol' deadline and let­ share these accomplishments backyard. The stench was some­ ations when she was at our 25th ting you stare at an empty space with us.... Another New Hamp­ thing fierce.' 'What are your com­ reunion. Our sympathy is ex­ where the Class of '62 snuggles shire classmate, Kathy Hertzberg, munity activities and what do tended to her family. She will be between '61 and '63," Linda a teacher in Contoocook, loves you get out of them?' the ques­ greatly missed. Contributions in Nicholson Goodman writes. "But reading mysteries, thinks that two tionnaire asked. 'Member of her memory can be made to Colby then the heart of the English things that happened at Colby town's solid-waste committee. A or to the Dana Farber Cancer major rebels and besides, l 've been while she was there that could free ride on the landfill bulldozer,' Institute in Boston . ... Justine impressed with the professional­ not occur now are Greek Week was Dean's response. 'What hap­ Brown Gengras is a contract ar­ ism and enthusiasm of Mary Por­ and Dean Seaman's Sunday 'mu­ pened at Colby when you were chaeologist in Tilden, N.H., and ter, assistant to Alumni Relations, sicales,' and would like to be­ there that couldn't happen now?' chair of the local conservation so I pound off another column come computer literate. Just learn 'ATO frat house brought in a commission. She just retired as knowing that you, my fellow a good word processing program, stripper from the Chez Paree to president of the New Hampshire friendsand classmates, will surely Kathy, and leave the program­ entertain the pledges.' Sorry, Archaeological Society ....Lou miss it (even if you haven't sent ming to the pros. This summer Dean, I'm tied by journalistic Rader, Ph.D., is a professor of anything about yourself in 10 Kathy planned her fifth overseas truth not to publish the name of English at King's College, Wilkes­ years!) ....Oneofmy morefaith­ tour with the Concord Chorale­ the autobiography you mentioned Barre, Pa.... Gordon St.John is ful respondents, Jimmy Johnson, to eastern Europe.... A fourth but will give credit foryour pre­ CEO and treasurer of a large in­ sent one of the brochures he uses and final response from New sentation ofThoreau's The Maine surance agency in Detroit. He to explain to other lawyers an Hampshire (must be that those Woods last summer at a humani­ still has an interest in hockey and extension of his legal practice, long cold New Hampshire win­ ties seminar in Oregon. If Garri­ coaches a high school team. the polygraphing of their clients. ters help incubate the pithy com­ son Keillor hadn't already flooded Gordon' three kids are scattered Lecturing occasionally at the ments) comes from Ed Kyle of the market with understatement, around the country .... Judy Department ofDefense Polygraph Concord, a civil engineer with you could become famous.... Miller Heekin is sad to report Institute, where all federal exam­ the department of transportation. Congratulations to Jean Kou­ that her husband died suddenly iners are trained, helps keep his Penny's and Ed's 21-year-old son, lack-Young (former!y Jean last September. Judy is complet­ skills honed. Jimmy, who pres­ Ted, is a junior at Middlebury Young Lawrence) who married ing her term as president ofa300- ently resides in Londonderry, College, where skiing is his mi­ Doran Koulack-Young on No­ member chapter of AAUW. She N.H., has a significant other. He nor. When not involved with a vember 18, 1989 ....Alsoremar-

54 Colby, August 1991 REUNION '91 A Banner We ekend

The Class of '6 1 was housed in one was een again unnl the wee Sturtevant and Taylor, two of the hours of the morning. newer halls ne tied among the trees Another group had a memo- next to Lorimer Chapel, and Bev rable dinner at Johann Sebastian Lapham immediately claimed the B's. The Mut:es, Nancy Tozier turf on behalf of the class. He hung Knox and husband Jim, Bev and a blue and gray banner from the Eli:abeth (Rowe '63) Lapham, Bob structure that houses both halls, pro- North, Diane Scrafton Ferreira, claimingthat StunevantLoungehad George Nix and Paul and Penny been taken over for '61 headquar- Dietz Hill enjoyed the foodand the ters. Bev noticed that his wasn't the atmo phere of the restaurant, whteh only banner affixed to a campus is owned by Hubert Kueter, a pro- building: for one weekend the old fessor of German at Colby. DKE flag hung high from Drum- Bebe Mutz and Candy Mar- mond, the hall that used to be the sellus, armed with several !ides, fraternityhouse. entertained the class with a show Although many of tho e who that included takes of many who marked their 30th reunion were on were absent fromthe reunion. Class- hand for the class's 25th bash in mates were also encouraged to bring 1986, a few were back after long cassettes of music dating to their absences. It was Robert North' fir t Colby years. Recordings of the time in Maine in many years. He King ton Trio and the Brothers Four says he had a fantastic timeand vows turnedup, but, unfortunately,as te- never to miss another reunion. Class- reo d idn'r. George Nix came to the mates were also excited to see Mary rescue with the sound system in his Sawyer Durgin, who journeyed all automobile. George found a way to Karyl Brewster the way from Texas to attend. How- '93 park the car behind Sturtevant ever, it was Diane Scrafton Ferreira The resourceful Classof '61 displayed its homemade banner. Lounge o the tape could be played who walked away with the distance for all to hear. With doors open and award this year. She came from Hawaii, where she is in the process stereo going, the only things he had to worry about were draining of moving fromHonolulu to the "big island." Diane was among a his battery and earning a reprimand from Campu ecurity-he contingent that chose to stay off the Hill for the weekend, was safe on both counts. including Quimby Robinson, John and Candy Castle Marsellus The class marched in the parade behind Bev's banner, and Dale and Bertha ''Bebe" Clark Mutz. wearing t-shirts that read: "30 Years Later, We're Still Kicking The beauty of the campus-and the many change that have Mule." In addition to the t-shirts, all who attended the reunion taken place on it in 30 years-were topics of conversation all received mug emblazoned with the Colby seal and "Class of weekend. Clas member noted that Lovejoy and Eu tis, con- 1961." structed during their year at Colby, are both due to be renovated The guests at the class dinner in Runnals Union on Saturday and expanded in the next few years. Many had accolades for the night were Alumni/Board Secretary Sid Farr 'SS, who welcomed food,which was a good deal better than the dining hall cuisine the class back, newly retired Professor of English Colin MacKay they remembered! and his wife, Gloria, as well as Karen (Beganny '63) and Bill Bryan Members of the class were pleased and proud to ee Denny '48. Regina Foley Haviland, tepping down after 10 years as class Dionne receive a Colby Brick at the Friday night awards banquet. agent, delivered a moving speech about what Colby has meant to Denny has been the Colby "C" Club Man of the Year and has been her. She was presented with Colby: A Celebration in Pictures for all deeply involved in the Alumni Council. As outgoing class presi- her hard work. Denny Dionne relinquished his position a presi- dent, Denny also organized the reunion. dent to David Ziskind. Bev Lapham will be vice pre ident forthe After the banquet, it was hard to mi s the 12-foot white nextfive years,withJudy "Scotty" Mac Leod Folger representing limousine waiting out ide the fieldhouse. Denny and hi wife, the class on the Alumni Council. Ned Gow reminds everyone to Mary, disappeared into the limo with Tom and Marilyn Blom send their questionnaires to the new class secretary/treasurer, Evans. The Evanses, the Dionnes, Margand Gene Rainville,Joan Penny Dietz Hill. and Bob Burke and Anne and Steve Chase arrived in style at the The weekend wa "a wonderfultime," said Ned Gow. "If you Point Aftasports bar in Winslow to catch the Bulls/Lakers game. didn't come, you hould have!"

Colby, August 1991 SS rying in June was Richard Mittleman, who is a lawyer in Providence, R.I. Rich has two sons, Michael, 24, and David, 23, who is engaged and living inCali­ forn ia. Rich's community activi­ ties revolve around fund raising for the civic and religious organi­ zations that have been of value in his professional and personal life ....Alice Webb is delighted His Te chnicolor Wo rld that her son, Michael, a sopho­ more at Sr. Michael's College, is dozen years ago, David Patrick Columbia '63 dropped out--0utof Westchester County, out thoroughly immersed in the the­ A of the retail clothing business, out of a life that simply felt wrong. ater and choral activities there. He didn't head foran ashram in India or a patch of woods in Vermont; be went to Hollywood. Alice is a member of the Reading (Mass.) Republican Town Com­ Armed with a deep interest in the movie business and a lifelongdesire to bea writer-and packing mittee and has just finished read­ only his books, records, three cats and two dogs--the 38-year-old Columbia went west. California ing The Long Dark Teatime ofthe had been a dream destination since he was a child attending movies to escape an unhappy home. Soul by Douglas Adams ....As "I was fascinated by Hollywood as a kid," he says. "Everybody lived happily ever afrer in a reported in one of my past col­ Technicolor world. My world was black and white, stark." umns, Frank 'Tony' Mainero, "We landed on our 22 feet," he says of himself and his menagerie, "but the first three or four along with his wife, Cathy, and year were hard. I came to L.A. knowing almost nobody. But I had one well-connected friendand four children ranging in age from I had a tuxedo, so 1 was always invited to parties where they needed an extra man." 14 to 23, has returnedto the East It was not the first time Columbia had changed course. In January of his junior year at Colby, Coast (North Andover, Mass.) "Twelve Picassos and a Green Rug," a play based on his home life, won a College contest. Later that after seven corporate transfers and month, he flunked out. 8,000 miles. Tony mentioned that he celebrated his 25th wedding "Winning that contest after writing, casting and producing a play was the most important anniversary and added: 'None of experience I'd had in life," he says. "I accomplished something that meant something to me. I my classmates ever expected to wanted to have that experience again." With the $100 prize money in his pocket, he went to New see that.' We do recall that Tony York to study acting. But, he says, "I discovered people all around me who were more dedicated to had a very active fraternity pin, the craft. I knew I would never be good enough. I was unwilling to be that dedicated to acting." but that was almost 30 years He became a stockbrokerand then, in 1973, opened the first of three successful boutiques in ago! ...The Goodmans went to suburban New York. He continued to write, keeping a journaland working on a screenplay, but as Colby in May to see and hear son his business grew so did Columbia's fe ar that he would become too entrenched in it to pursue a Bill at our final College com­ writing career. "I was struggling with the birth of a writer and often felt unsure of myself and mencement. Classmates selected wondered if I was making it up," Columbia says. "I had to have proof." A kind word about his Bill to be class speaker, and that was one deadline he had to make. screenplay from a studio executive gave him the final push he needed to tryhis luck in Hollywood. By the time this has gone to press He worked for a movie producer ("That means you lie on the floorand let him kick you"), wrote our second son, Jim, will have for television and sold articles to magazines. Then an editor familiar with Columbia's work married in San Francisco, and Jay introduced him to actress Debbie Reynolds, who was looking for a collaborator forher autobiog­ continues to pursue his Ph.D. at raphy. Their book, My Story,was published in 1988. lts critical and fi nancial success----coupled with the University of Colorado. Re­ an assist from Hollywood biographer Kitty Kelley-helped him land a contract from Harper­ member that our 30th reunion is Collins fora book, now in progress, about the Cushing sisters of Boston. The women, daughters of already in the planning stages for prominent brain surgeon Harvey Cushing, became the wives of Vincent Astor, John Hay Whitney next June. More on that later." and William Paley. Now Columbia's trenchant observations of Hollywood life, mainly delivered in letters to editor friends,have led Buena Vista Productions to recruit him fora television program called Celebrity Watchers, which will be offeredfor syndication this year. 63 "Well, it's time to His sense of having taken a risk and reached a goal, Columbia says, is more meaningfulthan return to my stack of letters and the spoils of success. "It's important to accomplish something that's personally satisfying toyou, not continue where I leftoff," begins anybody else," he says. the latest letter from correspon-

56 Colby, August 1991 dent Jo-Ann Wincze French. is an accountant, their daughter lege (Miami University of Ohio) future for t heU. S.S.R. bu ta won­ "But before I forget, I got a call recently graduated from UNH in the fall, at which time I will derful future full of possibilities recently from Mike Franklin (at and is a manager trainee at The also be moving into a new condo for the people of that region.' my new office, no less-that guy Gap and the other son is a stu­ that is presently under construc­ Succinct Joan Phillipps Thomp­ can find you anywhere). Mike dent. Richard remarked that 'the tion. I was very fortunate to be son summed it up as 'artistically asked me to mention our 30th way the U.S. economy is evolv­ able to sell my house before I even wonderful, economically peril­ reunion in 1993. An organiza­ ing, it is refreshing to observe put it on the market. l'll let you all ous.' Bruce Lippincott predicted tional workshop was held the first that going to college to get an know my address in the fall." 'a difficult decade, but the people weekend in August at Colby, but education is back in vogue, as will adjust and survive.' Todd if you weren't able to make that opposed to going to college to get Sherman expected 'portions of meeting, you can still help with a job and make a lot of money. It the U.S.S.R. will break away.' the planning. Contact Mike or brings one back to 1963. Liberal 64 "Hard to believe Ken Nye best expressed many me, and I will relay your interest. arts is back.' ...Lillian Waugh we've had a whole war since I opinions: 'Rapidly decreasing in­ Mike also wanted me to tell all of is a women's studies researcher wrote my last column," writes Sara ternational influence and esca­ you that our class still holds the and administrator, and her hus­ Shaw Rhoades. "From all accounts lating internal economic woes. I record for the highest participa­ band, David Yelton, is a microbi­ it was the best war we ever had. So think they are in for a decade of tion in the Alumni Fund of a ologist. They are enjoying life this is as inappropriate a time as chaos and decline and will even­ 25th reunion class .... Back on with a 12-year-old. Lillian says any to report on your opinions of tually emerge looking more capi­ another campus is Shirley Parry. that since she left Colby she be­ the future of the U .S.S.R. (This is talistic than socialistic. I don't Shirley's at the University of came a political activist, mar­ the last of my columns from last think they will be a major eco­ Maryland finishing her doctoral ried, mothered a budding scien­ summer'sopinionnaires.) ... Art nomic power in our lifetimes, but dissertation on Paule Marshall, a tist and became a basketball coach Fulman predicted 'short-term: they may get their act in order by contemporary African-American (for one eason). The British Isles serious economic issues. Long­ the mid-2 1st century. (Actually, novelist. She's also heading up a may call to them in '92 or '93, as term: more like U.S. than differ­ I don't really know what I'm talk­ project to mainstream women's Lillian is trying to find more time ent.' Art, incidentally, gets my ing about.)' ... I conclude this studies at the community college to travel and 'nurture treasured award for answering every ques­ column with a wonderfully infor­ where she teaches. Shirley has no friendships.' Their last vacation tion and praising the question­ mative letter from Wayne Fill­ free time and claims to come up was on the Florida panhandle at naire as well. ... Several of you back: 'Inasmuch as my original forair and sunlight only on Sun­ a resort where thousands of col­ predicted a completely sorry fu­ class was '60 (I was in the Army day mornings.... Janet MacColl lege students also happened to be ture. Morgan McGinley said, and working 1959-1963), I am Krakauer teaches fifth and sixth vacationing ....Had a very nice 'Long, painful, economic crisis.' pretty much of a 'mystery man' to grade and husband Thomas is letter from Steve Eittreim, who Linda Spear Elwell said, 'Dismal, most of the Class of 1964. I was executive director of the North is a marine geophysicist with the gloomy and possibly revolution­ with you only one year, lived off Carolina Museum of Life and U.S. Geological Survey. His wife, ary.' Peter Whalley was more campus, and so did not have the Science. Their son, Alan, is a Carole Ann, is a travel agent, philosophical: 'Bleak. Name me a pleasure of knowing many of you. junior at the N.C. School of Sci­ and their oldest child, Brooke, poor country with a good future I will be finishing my 20th year at ence and Math. Janet has gotten just began college at Cal Poly in or a rich country with a bad fu­ Stoneham High School, where I interested in family history and Pomona. Steve just completed a ture.' From Jim Simon: 'T oral frag­ have been a history teacher and now spends almost all her 'spare?' cooperative U.S./U.S.S.R. trans­ mentation, severe dictatorship coach, currently handling the time searching through old Pacific geologic transsect of the and rise of Germany.' Steve Advanced Placement American records. She has learned a lot Pacific Ocean. He spent one Brudno was tentative: 'Very un­ history classes, among my other about American history from this month on a Russian ship while certain.' Some of you reflected a assignments, and coaching cross­ project. The mo t recent trip the crossing the Pacific in 1990. Steve more cheerful outlook. Annette country and track. This follows Krakauers took was to southeast­ ha also traveled to Antarctica Petersen Greenberg and Andy stints of coaching football at the ernArizona on a birding expedi­ and spends his vacations sailing Houlahan see long-term positive University of Vermont (where I tion ....Richard Varneyis a vice around the San Juan Islands east changes. Dawne Wiswell Unruh took a master's degree), Danbury president of human resources, and of Vancouver Island. On a hu­ said the U.S.S.R. will survive. (Conn.) High School and Water­ his wife, Donna, is a homemaker morous note, Steve adds that he 'The military restraint has been ville High, where I taught and and volunteer. They have two never expected to be a marine impressive," she said, 'particularly coached right after graduating. I sons and a daughter and recently geophysicist. He gets 'deathly sea­ to those of us with memories of married the former Mary Ellen relocated to New Jersey. Richard sick.' Steve and Carole also play Hungary.' Barbie Carr How­ MacDonald in 1964 with the ink and D nna traveled to Italy last a lot of tennis, bicycle and work son suggested that the right lead­ still wet on my diploma. Our two year and will go to Bermuda thi on their house .... I'm still en­ ership could do wonders: 'They daughters are both out of college, year to celebrate their 30th wed­ joying my new job and will be need Madison and Jefferson!' Bill Ann graduating from Colby in ding anniversary. Theiroldestson sending my youngest off to col- Pollock allowed that 'there is no '88 and Laura from Denison in

Colby, August 1991 57 REUNION '91 25th Filled Wi th Laughs, Me�ories

I f Britt Carlson Anderson has had cold knees for the pa t 25 t-shirts, designed by Kay years, she can look forward to a warmer winter in 1992. Beth McGee Christie-Wilson, Adams Keene finally gor around ro returning a pair of blue who gets much of the credit kneesock she borrowed from Britt in 1966. for planning the reunion. But that was only one highlight of an outstanding 25th The hirts probably in­ reunion weekend, for which more than 120 classmates descended spired the outsranding ath­ on Mayflower Hill. Peter Lax and his family came the longest letic performances turned di tance, stopping off on their way home to Oregon from their in by class members on Sat­ year in Ireland. Erik Thorson surprised everyone with the news urday-Brian Shacter, (and the evidence, named Rhonda) that he had finally ended 45 class marathoner, ran the years of bachelorhood. Rhonda was adopted immediately by the three-mile fun run on a class, and she had a wonderful time at the reunion. bum foot and still managed In the "the times, they are a changin"' department, '66ers to place fifth overall, and were housed for the weekend in the Foss and Woodman residence equally heroic feats on the halls and shared bathrooms. Meg Fallon Wheeler and Russ golf course and tennis and Monbleau said they remembered the days when men's and volleyball court were women's living quarters at Colby were separated by a quarter mile. noted by Dick Gilmore as No comment on whether waking up to the sight of sleepy he doled out illy sports classmates was a good or bad innovation. awards. Karyl Brewster '93 Actor Phil MacHale wa reported to have turned a few Gretchen Wollam David Benevy '66, wife Susan and female heads at the gathering. ("It's Phil MacHale, live1" one O'Conner wa on hand, their shelties join the Parade ofClasses . woman was overheard to say.) Classmates have followed his and her talent as a film­ career avidly. After several years as a soap opera heartthrob, Phil maker was obvious in the video she showed depicting the class's is now seen most often in national televi ion commercial . His lifeand timesat Colby-set to those great old tunes that they don't new nickname, The Geritol Man, refers not to his physical make anymore. A display of the class's post-Colby achievement condition but to his most prominent roles. was organized by Jan Atherton Hoffman,and Carol Lordi distrib­ Phil and the other '66ers did look smashing in their special uted pages from the 1966 Orac/.eto each classmate with orders to write an update, please (maybe he's getting ajump on the 30th?}. Meg Wheeler, in her swan ong as class correspondent, confessed to writing her Colby columns and biannual newsletters the way she used to write papers at Colby-"waited 'ti! the deadline, then pulled an all-nighter," she told classmates at Saturday's banquet. "Flattery goes a long way when you're doing a job with crummy hours and lousy pay," Meg said. "So remember to flatter Russ Monbleau, at least occasionally." Those with good memorie will recall Stu Wantman's humor ca. 1966. In his capacity as weekend emcee, Stu proved that ome things never change; his jokes are as bad as ever. Stu's fund-raising abilities, however, are second to none: his hard work as class agent helped net $78,902 for the Alumni Fund-the largest gift ever for a 25th reunion class. As well as showca ing its athletic, charitable and fun-loving side , the class also took some time for intellectual pursuits. Anne Ruggles Gere, professor of English at the University ofM ichigan, erved as moderator for a forum on the family in flux, and Britt Carlson Anderson led a group in discussing the state of the world. Both enjoyed large and lively audiences. Saturday night's business included the selection of cla officers, with Linda Mitchell Potter tapped for class pre ident, Members of the Class of ' 66 showed up early on Friday afcemoon for Carol Lordi elected vice president, Russ Monbleau taking over as a class cookout. From 1.efr, Karen Riendeau Remine, Donna Tyl.er secretary/treasurer, Peter Swartz as Alumni Council representa­ Cummings , Deborah Anglim Higgins , Jay Fell, Bech Pea Armstrong, tive and Stu Wantman continuing as class agent. Meg Fallon Wheel.erand Linda Buchheim Wagner.

58 Colby , August 1991 '89. l have been the fortunate himself as 'writer and theater en­ ketball game against Babson.We recipient oftwoNEH fe llow hips trepreneur' and is working on a won! Bud just celebrated 20 years 68 "Hello. fu re 1·er for summer study, one at UC/ screenplay about petroleum .... with Manpower, Inc. (apparently young Colby brothers and ·isters," Davis in 1985 and one at Kenyon Louise MacCubrey Robbins is a not temporary after all) and does says Barbara Bixby. "Because this in 1990."' psychotherapist (licensed clini­ exten ive volunteer work as chair column ha been printed ui:i,la m calsocial worker) 'in private prac­ of the board of the local (Man­ assured that once again our for­ tice at the Christian Holistic chester, N.H.) Catholic hospi­ giving editor has condoned the Health Center in Biddeford , tal. . . . Tom Korst i the direc­ handwritten manuscript of this 65 Dick Bankart writes: Maine, and loving it.' ...Bud tor of computer services for the low-tech, downwardly mobile "Dave Fearon has been granted Marvin continues to cheer the city of Auburn, Maine, and has correspondent. ... Former Illi­ tenure at Central Connecticut Mules (no pictures of Bud in hi just automated the department of nois State Representative John State University, where he is an 'press hat' were included). He fire, police, finance and parks. He Birkinbine has been nominated as ociate professor of manage­ made campus visit for the ECAC also found time to take Doris as a to the Northfield board of trust­ ment. He keeps in shape by play­ Division llI championship bas- bride. Hail, Colby, Hail!" ees. He is presently a member of ing racquetball four times a the planning and zoning com­ week ....A newsy note from Jean mittee ....And Senator Mike Ferguson Cole repons she is 'jack Metcalf (re-elected recently}, of all trades, master of few,'among with wife Mary Lee (Merrill '70), them treasurer of her church, Correspondents offers perpetual guidance to hi bookkeeper for her husband's teenaged sons and teenaged sru­ business and honicul rurist. 'l grow 1960 1965 dents ....After 20 year ofhome­ flowers, hundreds of them, from Katherine P. White Richard W. Bankart makingand volunteering, Nancy seed each spring. Nearly every 1228 Sandringham Way 20 Valley Avenue Suite D2 Short Hall now has a career run­ horizontal surface is covered with Birmingham, Ml 480 10 We twood,NJ 07675 ning the computer labs at Col­ eedlings.' ... Linda Stearns, 313-646-2907 201-664-7672 chester Junior High School in 'fabric artist, domestic manage­ Vermont ....The Rideouts, ment,' has been active in chari­ 1961 George andMary (Weller '69), table fund rai ing, substitute Penelope D. Hill 1966 their children and their extended teaching (she's going back to col­ (Penelope Dietz) Russell N. Monbleau family of international students lege to get a teaching certificate}. 2 Sunnyside Lane 3 Lovejoy Road send their best to all of us from Meals on Wheels and, she adds, New Fairfield, CT 068 12 Milford, NH 03055 their home and church ministry 'learning to say no---heh, heh!' 203-746-3223 603-673-5508 base in Wellesley Hills, Mass ...... Gordon Corey spends his As I must assist my 15-year-old 1962 son, Josh, now a srudent at 'my' winters in Pinehurst, N.C., and 1967 summers in Cumberland, Maine, Linda Goodman school, with his algebra, I beg you Mr . Ro A. Dean where he is 'Headmaster: Gor­ (Linda H. Nicholson) to indulge a terse farewell for now. (Su an R. Daggett) don Corey's Institute of Equine Fernwold Heights Farm l also solicit, welcome and adore 29301 N. 114th Street Erudition.' School ofhor e ense? 96 Lynch Hill Road your letters and phone calls." Scottsdale, AZ 85255 Gordon plays cribbage and says Oakdale, 063 70 CT 602-585-0313 he's proud of 'two girls much 203-848-0469 smarter than Dad! (Thanks, Mom).' ... 1963 1968 69 Anna Thomp on From the Powder and Wig Jo-Ann W. French Barbara E. Bixby Bragg writes: "Again I report new department: Susan McGinley, (Jo-Ann Wincze) 12 Eighth Street of our classmates ac ross the based in East Holden, Maine, 864 S. Parkview Drive Bayville, NY 11709 United States and Canada . . . . writes that he is 'theater direc­ Aurora, OH 44 202 516-628-1597 Bonnie Allen Rotenberg is liv­ tor, blueberry grower and dog 216-562-9925 ing in Chestnut Hill, Ma s., with trainer' and directed Ibsen's Peer her husband, Jon,and two daugh­ Gynt for Open Door Theatre of 1964 1969 ters, Fay, 6, and Lee, 4. Bonnie is Boston during the summer of SaraRhoades Anna T. Bragg principal of two companies, Res­ '91. . . . Bruce Hertz, in Wayne, (Sara K. Shaw) (Anna E. Thomp on) taurant Brokersof America (they Maine, left the BangorDaily News 76 Norton Road PO Box 267 sell, lea e, apprai e and do con­ after 20 years and now owns 'The Kittery, ME 03904 61 outh Main Street sulting to the restaurant indus­ Lakewood Theater-the State 207-439-2620 Washburn, ME 04786 try) and Hotel and Restaurant Theater of Maine.' He now lists Personnel of America, an execu-

Colby,August 1991 59 rive 'earch firm. Bonnie anJ her fa mily 'pend '>ummers in Christ­ mas Cove, Maine, anJ 'welcome anyone who comes into the har­ bor to come by anJ say hello!' She may have our entire class on Theodore C. Lockhart '61 her doorstep! .. . Mary Jane 'Janey' Neill Marshall is living in Kanata, On t., where she is director of MIS, New bridge Net­ Headliners worb Corporation, which is a telecommunications company. Michael Flynn '61 was elected to the board of directors of Eastern Bancorp, a Vermont-based Her husband, Greg, is d high multiple savings and loan holding company ....Rear Adm. Theodore C. Lockhart '6 1 was named 'chool physics teacher. They have operational commander of the Navy's South Atlantic Force ... . Baudouin de Marcken '62 is U .. a daughter. Eliwheth,17, and a Agency for International Development deputy mi- ion director in Kinshasa, Zaire. . . . Gerald son, Trevor, 14. Janey left Colby "Jeff" Gould '62 was named administrative director of the Pinebrooke psychiatric health facility ,1fterher )Untl)rycar tomarry Greg, at Culpeper (Va.) Memorial Hospital.. ..Janice C. Griffith '62 was named a fellow of the then finished her B.A. at Carleton American Council on Education ....John N. Bush '64 was promoted to head partner in the tax UniveNty. Later she completed division of Peat Marwick Main in Los Angeles. . . Colby trustee James Crawford '64, chair and her M.B.A. at rhe University of CEO of the James River Coal Co., wa· featured in a Fortune magazine article about corporate Ottawa. Good to hear from you, credit .... Martin C. Benjamin '68 was named vice president of sales and marketing forthe Puerto Janey! ... In Yarmouth, Maine, Rico division of the Pueblo International supennarket chain .... Duke University Press has Martha Crane Soule is the office published Shakespeare's Dramatic Transactions , by Michael E. Mooney '69, a member of the manager for her hu banJ'· com­ Department of English at the University of New Orleans. pany, SIGCO, Inc. The company fabricates cu tom insulated glass untts. Martha has three daugh­ Newsmakers ters, 18, 15 and 11. I am sure it is safe to say that her telephone i Stephen L. Finner '60 was named the Greater Washington Area Unitarian Univer ali t busy most of the time! Martha layperson of the year for"rhe significant contriburions he has made to the spmt of religious freedom says she survived one midlife cri­ in the Unitarian Universalist way." ...Jean Martin Fowler '64, director of information service sis-the purchase of a '72 VW and consumer affairs for the Bristol-Myers divi ion of Bri tol-Myer Squibb, wa honored for her camper bus that was used for a achievements by the Rolling Hills (Md.) Girl Scout Council. ...Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 trip to Daytona Beach. Memories presented the 1991 Mason Library Honors Lecture in Manchester, N .H., last spring. Goodwin, the must have been made on that author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, spoke on trip! . ..Gary Austin will have 'The Art of the Biography." . ..Patricia Raymond Thomas '65 received the 1991 Lois Burpee ro be the one male included in Service Award from the Central Bucks Family YMCA in Doyle town, Pa., for her "outstanding thi i ue. Gary is a colonel in the contribution to the YMCA through volunteer service." . . . Bruce W. Barker '66 was named USAF, where he is an F- 16 pro­ manager of the Peoples Bank Ryder's Landing branch in Danbury, Conn . ...George Markley '67 gram manager. He ha recently was elected to the board of trustees at the Park City Hospital in Bridgeport, Conn .... Portland, returned from over two years in Maine, attorney Lee Urban '68 is a rising star m the city's business communiry, according to a Europe, ix months of which was feature article in the Portland Press Herald. Urban is active in hi toric preservation effortsand chair spent in Rome attending a NATO the Business Advisory Council, which is working to keep busine es from fleeing down­ Defense College and 20 at town ....Barbara Klingerman Morgan '69 received the Chief Richard J. Hughes Award for Spangdahelm AirBase, Germany, academic excellence from Rutger University School of Law . . . . Carol Partridge Ochs '69 is the as the deputy commander for author of Moose on the Loose (Carolrhoda Books 1991), a children's book for ages 4-10. maintenance. Gary has been in the Air Force since graduation and has had lots of travel and plenty of challenges. Hi wife, Mileposts Kim, is an office manager for a Salt Lake City law firm. They Marriages: Joan Thiel '64 to William T. Hadley in Boston, Mass. have a daughter and a son. Thank Deaths: Elisabeth Lyman Rachal '65 in Winnetka, Ill., at 47 . ... Raymond E. Hodgkins you all for your help. I hope you '68 lost at sea offBar Harbor, Maine, at 44. are enjoying the summer!"

60 Colby, August 1991 THE SEVENTIES

can appreciate their smooth gait out. ...The Pembroke (Mass.) 72 Janet Holm Gerber (no bounce!}, smaller size and 73 "Gywnelle Dis­ Public Library di played origami reports: "Illustrator Sue Hurwitz gentle disposition. Enjoy them, mukes sent me a lot of informa­ paper collages by Martha Wet­ Tatelbaum of New Bedford, Susan, and keep us updated .... tion," writes Anne HuffJordan. more Scott in February. Martha Mass., has recently had a series of Meanwhile, Rebecca Routh re­ "She's now living in her birth­ received her M.A. and M.F.A. in seven children's coloring books cently had an incredible 12 place, Nashville. Up until Febru­ art from the University of Iowa. publi hed-<:alledSue's Kids.I' ve months in the Soviet Union. She ary she was an as istant editor he teaches at Fi her College in een them-they're clever, and worked in Moscow and Leningrad and writer for a newspaper called Boston and instructs a children' each cover a 'meaningful' sub­ as 'translation ed itor' for an The Common Ground Community art group at home . . ..Karen ject. Titles include Sue's Kids Ear American professor trying to pub­ Monthly. One ofGwynelle's many Wintringham is a vice president Healthy Foodsand Sue's KidsHelp lish a quarterly journalon Soviet poems, called 'in gendered war,' in corporate development at Save Us (environmental con­ economic changes. Funding ran was included in an art gallery Health Insurance Plan of Greater cern ). The books are only $1.50 out, o, sadly, she came home. exhibit in January. After that she New York. She and Thomas, a each, including po tage and han­ She treasure the'manyveryclo e produced a new book of poem researcher in health care, have dling, and canbe ordered directly artistic friend ' she made and the called wise love. imultaneously, three wonderful children. Their from Sue. Good job! ...Walt opportunity to 'witness, fir thand, Gwynelle added another collec­ on, Rob, a freshmanat William Wieners has a new addre -in all the exciting changes taking tion called women in the world of College, was on the varsity bas­ Collierville, Tenn.-after 15 place.' But he's hoping to get men. These 13 poems are written ketball team that beat Colby last year in California.He has a new back to Leningrad for at least a in calligraphy and beautifully il­ January! Karen and Thomas also position in the corporate officeof few years- he' looking forwork lu trated. If you would like infor­ warch Rob play varsity golf

Varco-Pruden Buildings, a manu­ in translation/editing or interpret­ mation or to place an order, matchesagainstColby . ... Susan facturer of pre-engineered tee! ing ....Here on my homefront Gw nelle's company is: Good Schink likes her new position as buildings. He and his wife, Becky, in Maryland, life doe n't have Relation ,402 1 A We tlawn Dr., product manager forretail film in have a daughter, Carrie, and a nearly the aura of glamour that so ashville, TN 3 7209. After pro­ her company. She met Christi son, Matt. ...Havingspentthree many ofyour ralesdo. It'sfunny­ ducing the primed program and Pope '74 in March for a little and a half years in Alaska, Susan at Colby I felt pretty free- pi rited, adverti ing campaign for a play skiing with Christi's and teve's Buttner Lavelle has enjoyed the quite unique in my own little called Love LetteTs From Death (Capaldo '74) two boys. They past five years of warmth in Irvine, way. But if ! described my day-to­ Row, Gwynelle and a friend,who have a little girl, also, who is Calif. She lives with husband day doings to you now I'd sound produced the play, are now pro­ Susan's godchild. There may be a Allen, two young sons, a black quite 'typical'-staying at home ducing a paperback edition. fourth child as you read thi col­ lab and two black cats. While with my two young treasures, Jus­ Gwynelle's fir t nationally di - umn! Sue and I try to keep in pursuing a master's in socialwork tin and Taylor, scurrying between tributed book a a publi her (one touch and ee each other at least at the University of Southern soccer, gymnastics, school and horn press}, titled Issues in Afri­ once a year. I'm looking forward California, she works as a social church volunteer work, then back can American Education , by to adding many more name to service intern at Saddleback to the stove again. (I admit to lots WalterGill, Ph.D.,i offthe press. our nextcolumn-with your help, Women's Hospital. ...Along of exerci e-l'm a faithful run­ Gwynelle has numerous freelance of course." with Susan Colantuono's ques­ ner; to enjoying good food-I'm projects going, and he is very tionnaire came her holiday news­ a good cook and make healthful invol ed with her children, letter. What a fun letter to read­ meals; and to keeping up a pretty Chaing-tu, 6, and Aminata, 2. and what an easy way for any of home to enjoy.} But l wouldn't ...Joan Emery continues to live you to share the 'flavor' of your trade tho e family activities for in Berkeley, Calif., with her hus­ 7 4 "The questionnaire lives. Please think of all of us next anything, and as all you know, in band, son and daughter. She's a worked. Plenty of news," notes holiday season and put me on your own world anything impor­ genetic coun elor at Children' teve Collin , who continues to your mailing list if you write one tant becomes unique and special. Ho pita! in Oakland, where she do double duty as a class corre­ of those newsy letters. Anyway, So for those of you like me with counsels pregnant women about spondent and a freelance features back to Susan. Life is full with no glamorous tales to tell-tell prenatal care ....Gary Arsen­ writer for Colby. "Linda Krohn husband Ron, on Justin, 5, and them anyway. And we'll try to ault reported from orfolk, Va., Kildow of Apple Valley, Minn., the start of a Paso Fino hor e leave a little pace in the column that both Kevin Higgins and got three (count 'em) Colby bibs breeding venture. There' a new for you entrepreneurs, travelers, Eileen Burns Lincoln got mar­ in the mail thi winter, one for barnand fence on the property to soul-searchers and corporate uc­ ried (not to each other) last sum­ each baby. That's right, triplets. house the lovely animals. I con­ cesses!" mer. Both expected their fir t Big isters Lind ey, 6, and Karin, fes to knowing nothing about babie last March. Gary, still 2, now have Dylan, Laura and the Paso Fino breed(o r any other, single, hasrun five marathons, i Reed at home. 'You get u ed to for that matter) before reading bench pressing 325 pounds and the commotion,' Linda told the Susan's description, but already I has begun a light boxing work- localpaper .... Anne Marie(w e

Colby, August 1991 61 REUNION '91 '71 Celebrates in Style

There were more than a few teenaged sons and daughters attached to the 20th reunion contingent, Linda Chester re­ knew her as Amy Caponetto) ports, and for good reason. Galloway writes from Mt. Kisco, Members of the Class of '71 N.Y., that he's taken a leave of arewatchingtheirchildrenap­ absence from a career in A-V educational publishing to be at proach college age and many home with Sam, 6, and Sarah, 2. were anxious to show off She keep in touch with Andrea Colby. Hicks Sato in Wi lton, Conn. "Still alive and having Andrea's been on leave from fun" wa the way one of these Pepsico with two kids under the young visitors, Alana Cooper, age of 2. 'Any news of Deborah the daughter of Roz Wasser­ (Wilson '73) and Brett Bayley?' man Cooper, described the Amy asks. . ..Judy Sidell West­ group after watching two days erlund of Taby, Sweden, spent of reunion festivities. eight years working out of her More than 7 5 classmates home as a translator and just took a part-time as istant-to-a-profes­ joined spouses, children and sor position at the Royal Institute other guests on a gorgeous of Technology (Sweden's MIT). weekend that started with the She, husband Berndt, andkids, 4, shared pride of watching class­ MaryEllen Matava 8 and 10, planned to be in the mate Frank Apantaku, a David Greenman, whose nametagreads "Class of 2000 ," joins his States for eight weeks this Colby trustee, receive his well­ fa ther Joseph Greenman for a little reunion chuckle. summer ....Clo er to home, deserved Colby Brick. Some Diane and Mark Curtis of of those in the class parade Saturday morninggot the chance to practice their old peace chants before Manchester, Maine, ran theirown returning to more conventional activities-presentation of a class gift of more than $77 ,000, posing lighting business for the past two for a class picture and sucking it up for a softball game against the Class of '76. years. Mark returned to Central Maine Power Co. in February as a "The final outcome of the gameis subject to doubt, if not dispute," Chester reported, "and I, project manager. Among his suc­ forone, refuse to re on to tabloid jour­ cesses he listed 'performing mar­ nalism regarding this event." riage for Bob Theberge and Kathy At the class banquet Saturday Cone '76.' ... Bob Theberge night, Robert Gordon was elected presi­ writes that he is president and dent, Grace Cappannari vice presi­ treasurer of R.C. Theberge Gen­ dent, Nancy Hammar Austin secre­ eral Contracting, Inc. in Bruns­ tary and Joanne Weddell Magyar wick, Maine. He and Kate have Alumni Council representative. Pro­ three kids, including Megan, born fessor John Sweney poke movingly of June 19, 1990 ....Ap ressrelease the tumultuous years, on campus and from Group Health, Inc. in Min­ neapolis reports that Richard off, that encompassed the class's time Steinberg, M.D., joined the staff at Colby. John and Pete Joseph,other­ at Como Medical Center' allergy/ wise known as John and Pete Spa, were dermatology department in among the honored guests. January ....From Canada, At the dance in Foss, Joe Green­ Christi Pope and Stephen man seemed younger than ever, Jim Capaldo report they've been in Hawkins shocked some former cla - Oakville, Ont., for four years. mates by announcing that he is now a Steve i manager of French lan­ marathoner and the Lambda Chis (the guage services for the Legislative real ones, from back when fraternities Assembly of Ontario and Chri ti is a homemaker, 'retired' from a were legal) sang and danced to their MaryEllen Matava geology career that took her across song, concluding the festivities by lift­ Canada and into the Arctic. Their Cleaning up afterfe asting on Maine lobster are Susan Farwell ing partners to their shoulders in a fourth child was due in mid-July. and daughter Adrienne Philson. "cloud dance." 'We'd love to hearfrom any other

62 Colby , August 1991 Colby people who have found their way to southern Ontario,' Christi concluded."

75 Su an Gearhart Big Screen Dreams Wuest thanks clas mates for all the mail. "It's been great hearing from you," she says ...."J im and Actor Norman Skaggs '77 is tense. "I got a script at 10 o'clock last night," he explains, "and the Sally Hawk Gibson, Fryeburg, audition is in exactly 47 minutes." Maine, have three children, Leslie Two day later, Skagg doe n't know ifhe got the pan, a featurefilm role, and he' till uneasy (9), David (6) and Daniel (1 ), about the lack of preparation time. For his role in "Decoration Day," the fir t of hi two Hallmark who keep them very busy. A high school science teacher, Jim is in­ Hall of Fame movies, kagg had to audition five times. volved with the National Sci­ " ow I have a reputation in Hollywood, and a lot of casting director will send me straight to ence Teachers Association and the final audition," he say . "It' a two-edged word. I liked the proce of repeatedly doing the the Maine Science Teachers As­ audition because I got tronger and tronger. Now the fir t time I hear the word in the air, all the sociation and is state co-director chip are on the line. I've been working really hard the past ix months to see it as a privilege and ofthe Science Olympiad. A mom, to walk in there and be a good actor offthe bat. That' hard." pan-time childcare giver and Acting wasn't alway part of kagg ' plan. He was a three-sport tandout in Waterford, Conn., community volunteer, Sally is a and aspired to play in the National Football League. He thought Colby could give hima shot at that, member of PTA and of a parents' along with a fir r-rate education. 'They'd had rwo fantastic season before I got there and they'd group that 'encourage education, not cuts in education.' Both are sent a couple of guy to pro camps," he says, " o the idea wa n't fa.rfetched." involved with their church and But by the end of his ophomore ea on, kagg was feeling beat up and re tie . Resurrecting any and all activitie with their a childhood love of theater, he tried out fora College production of "Harvey," landing the role of kids. They planned a trip for June '76 Judge Gaffney,and was cast by John Mulcahy in "Cabaret." At the ame time, he began training to South Carolina to celebrate in dance with Tina Wentzel. "I began the long process of changing my body," he says. "I wanred Sally's parent ' 50th wedding to rerain a different kind of strength and a ense of fluidity and length. She set me on the road to anniversary. . . In January, that." Cindy (Sanders '7 3) and Earle His sudden witch fromfoo tball to dance had painful ide effects. "I was omewhat o tracized Ingalls moved to Pittsford,N. Y., by the football team,"he ay . Partly to e cape the opprobrium, he pent hi junior year in Besanr;on, my neck ofthe woods. Earle is the France, and the change of scene helped. During his senior year he acted unabashedly in every play director of marketing for chips and snacks at Curtice-Bum produced at Colby while finishing a B.A. in English and French literature. Foods. They have one son, David After graduation he joined a clas ical French repertory group in Bo ton but was fired forfailing (7). After 13 year on the West to perfect a Parisian accent. He wa admitted to a combined ma ter' /Ph.D. program in dramatic Coast, Earle and Cindy are look­ literature at the Universiry of Connecticut and continued to act. But the overwork caught up with ing forward to being able to drive him, and after 18 month Skaggs left Storr fora brief mountainside retreat in Maine. Revived, he to visit family and friends .... pent the next everal years honing hi craft, first on the stage with uch prestigious group as the Linda Guire Hall, Mc. Vernon, Attic Theater in Detroit and the Mabou Mines avant garde troupe in New York, then studying at Maine, works as a certified oph­ the American Con ervatory Theater in San Franci co. thalmic assistant in t.1-ie retinal Skaggs did hi first camera work in San Franci co, acting in industrial films. "People are erious disease clinic at Mid-Maine Medi­ about doing [the film ] well. I knew that the odds that I would ever find work in Los Angeles were cal Center. Husband Richard is a elf-employed dairy farmer with about a million to one. I wanted to come here ready ro walk in front of a camera." 150 head of registered Holsteins. He was cast in "Decoration Day" only even months after he arrived in Los Angeles, and a Daughter Renee Lynn-their second Hallmark movie-"Shadow of a Doubt"-followed hortly. He has made everal commer­ miracle baby after eight year of cials and appeared on TV's TheYoung Riders. infertility and five operations­ "What I'm hoping," he says, "i that my next work will be onafeature filmand that my identity is now 2. Parenthood at age 38 will then be more strongly associatedwith film than with televi ion. Right now I'm in kind of a no­ has been an adjustment! Linda man' land, a Skaggs land, between TV and fe ature films." wishe that he could bottle her daughter's energy. Another love

Colby, Augu t 1991 63 Correspondents

1970 1975 Robin Cote 1 gardening-she grows a large Susan Wuest first in Maine, then Boston and variety of flower . And on a farm (Robin C. Armitage) (Susan C. Gearhart) Philadelphia, and for the past four they �eem to accumulate cats- 45 Hayes Avenue 65 Country Downs Circle years, New York City. These days 24 wasthe last count! Linda wrote Beverly, MA 01915 Fairport, NY 14450 I'm at ABC (as are Colby grads that she visited with Celeste 508-922-8874 716-223-1967 Curt Gowdy, Jr. '75 and Greg Keefe Wesner over the Christ­ Gatlin '89) producing stories for 1971 mas holidays and had heard from PrimeTime Live. I'm all ears if Mark and Susan Adolfson Nancy Austin 1976 anyone out there has a story idea Phillips, who are now living in (Nancy Hammar) Noel Stella for our show; we're always look­ the Bosron area. . . Sarah 29 Irving Street #5 (Noel Barry) ing, and I'm anxious to hear from Rosenberg opened her own law Worcester, MA 01609 28 Stuart Place more people, particularly Francie practice two years ago in Port­ 508-797-4 711 Westfield, MA 01085 Prosser-Riessen, Liz Alpert and land, Oreg., and serves on the 413-562-5629 Spinner O'Flaherty '79, who, last board of directors of Oregon 1972 I heard, was in the New York area Woman Lawyers. Sarah and hus­ Janet Gerber and engaged to be married." (Janet Holm) band Don Camparoli, a meteor­ 1977 11112 Broad Green Drive ologist/air quality specialist, have Lisa Rapaport Potomac, MD 20854 two sons, Jacob (5) and Adam (3 (Lisa M. Tripler) 301-299-6240 1/2), one cat, one dog and two 2 Tall Pine Road 79 Emily Grout Sprague goldfish 'who refuse to die.' In Cape Elizabeth, ME 04 107 thanks all who returnedthe ques­ 1973 February they were trying to get 207-767-2406 tionnaires. "You'll hear no more their house ready to sell. Other­ Anne H. Jordan pleading for news or whining wise, life consists of going to yoga (Anne Huff) about a lack of letters for some 36 Hillcrest Road class, taking the children to the 1978 time to come," she promises. ''I'll zoo and visiting her parents in Medfield, MA 02052 do my best to get as much newsin 508-359-5025 Susan GernertAdams Seattle every few months .... as quickly as possible ... . Kay 155 E. 93rd St., Apt. 5D Douglas Schwarz wrote from LaVoie Lowell writes from Buf­ New York, NY 10128 Penacook, N.H., that Tiny the 1974 falo, N.Y., that she and her hus­ 212-860-8020 Boa Constrictor is alive and well Stephen B. Collin band, Nate (many of you may and now has his own room, a RFD 3 Box 6600 remember him as the former as­ converted closet, thanks to 'a very Oakland, ME 04963 sistant manager of the Colby tolerant landlady, Carol Foss.' A 207-465-3870 1979 bookstore), pulled up their life­ self-employed computer consult­ Emily M. Sprague long stakes in Maine to relocate ant, Doug also does free lance writ­ Thomas K. Lizotte (Emily M. Grout) and pursue their educations at ing-for the religion section of RFD 1, Box 4970 758 Gotham Street the University of Buffalo. In May rhe Concord Monitor, as well as a Oakland, ME 04963 Watertown, NY 13601 1992, Kay will graduate with a column on religion and ethical 207-465-3 109 315-788-5 119 master's degree in library and in­ issues for several other papers. formation science and Nate with Involved with volunteer work for a degree in management ....John the Audubon Society of New try. She and her husband, Ted '78 and Susan Raymond Geismar Hampshire, Doug still socializes 78 "Ar long last the si­ Reed '80, live in Falmouth, are living in Lewiston, Maine, with several of our classmates: lence is broken," writes new class Maine ....From the City of with daughters Emily and Anna. Scott Smith and Patti Cass, John correspondent Susan Gernert Brotherly Love, Tom Suddath Sue is an admissions counselor at and Ann Gage Conantand David Adams. Previous correspondent reporrs he's still with the U.S. Bates, and John is practicing law. Peck. ...Liv ing in Mansfield, Jim Scott decided to hand over Attorney'soffice working on bank John Crispin is reported to be Mass., Rick Gleason is a geolo­ the reins this spring. "Our class fraud, drug and S & L cases. Tom practicing anesthesiology in gist and manager of hazardous­ news comes from one lonely let­ passed along the news that Ed Lewiston, but they had not yet waste services for Ebasco Services, ter and one phone call, but I Smith is in Denver working for a run into him .... Despite her Inc. in Boston. Rick and wife know that's going to change .... construction materials firm and strong objections to the wording Ellen, a speech pathologist, have Susan Pollis writes that her real Lindsay Leard is finishing her of the questionnaire and her re­ two children, Sarah (10) and estate business is booming, so doctorate in art history at Co­ sentment of some of the ques­ Michael (6). Gardeningand bas­ much so that she's created Port­ lumbia while moonlighting at the tions, Laurel Johnson Black ketball fill in any spare time folio Real Estate Investments to Museum of Modem Art in New wrote that she is a research assis­ slots ....Hope you're all having assist buyers and sellers of top­ York City .... I've beenworking tant in the English Department a good summer!" shelf property around the coun- in television since we graduated, of Miami University in Oxford,

64 Colby, August 1991 REUNION '91 They Haven't Changed a Bit!

Looking great! That was the consensus of the Class of 1976. (which 1 consider a compliment) were Debby Belanger and Paul Noel Barry Stella served as Colby ' s woman-on-the-scene at the Philbin, who also had a problem telling Steve Roy and Mike Roy 15th reunion: '74 apart. "The class was housed together in renovated Johnson, Averill "We thrive on tradition, so couldn't miss the lobster bake and Piper (formerly DU) residence halls," Noel reports. "Among Saturday noon. It was preceded by the parade of cla ses to the the classmates encountered were: Howie Tuttman, looking in football field for the presentation of class gifts to Colby, and our vain for Mark Helmus and hoping to return a book borrowed 15 class acquitted itself quite nicely. We marched with Mary Mabon years ago; Dan Murphy, who designs software at APX labs in Colonna, who worked offthe excess energy from a 17-hour drive Natick, Mass. (and encourages classmates to buy his wares forall with her two small children, with Ann Dunlap LeBourdais, Enid their mainframes); Melinda Walker, an avid runner whose hus­ Gardner Ellisand Debbie Hirsch Corman, who are still the best band won the fun run Saturday morning; Mary Helen and Brian of friends, and with Carrie Getty, whom we women decided we Hurley, who showed off their pride and joy, son Tommy; Nancy would most like to look like. We cracked lobsters with Charlie Daly, a lawyer with the New England Legal Foundation in Boston Fitts and his family, Alan Howard, Robin Sherwood Ziolkowski, and mother of two redheads; Gil Becker, who teaches at St. Peter Labombarde, MyrnaCath Fried and Robin ('Don't call me Anselm'sCollege; and Sam and Karen Smith Gowan, who hadn't Robert!') Bourne. changed a bit! Also in Johnson with two boys whose parentage "The Class of '71 foolishlychallenged us to a softballgame cannot be mistaken were Steve '77 and Val Jones Roy. Steve took after the bake-and lived to regret it. Mitch Brown, Opie, Bob time out from Alumni Council meetings to show several '76ers the Cooper, Joe Stella, Mark Janos, Jay Sarson and Dick Weaver way to Smiley's Dairy (but did we have to go via Bangor?). were among the victors. Dave Systrom showed his true character "Mark Tanguay now sports a full beard (forcomparison, when he tried to throw a three-year-old girl our at home plate. check out that yearbook picture). Opie ('Call me Dick') Oparowski For those who preferred to learnsomething, producer Tom played in the golf tournamentFriday and, predictably, rode around Silverman shared his experiences in the music business with an in a cart while his teammates from the Class of '34 carried their audience enticed by the promise of a free tape. bags. Among the people who mistook KarenSmith Gowan for me "Kate Cone Theberge is to be congratulated for her efforts to coordinate a terrific dinner Saturday night-Mark Janos will have a hard act to follow as our new class president. Robert Weinstein was presented with a commemorative book about Colby for his efforts as '76's class agent these past five years, and afterdinner, Dean Janice Seitzinger, Professor Charlie Bas ett and President Cotter shared a few thoughts with the group before we broke up for dancing and socializing. Jimmy Hayes entertained his former teammates with anecdotes about life with Coach Winkin. John Lumbard confessed that after telling his wifehe was going out for formula for their two infants, he had somehow ended up at the parry. Rob Hamblett brought his wife all the way from San Francisco, and Luis deCorrall brought his family from Puerto Rico. "The weekend was a huge success. The child care was exceptional, meals great and accommodationsconvenient. For all those who couldn't come, we MaryEllen Matava missed you and urge you to come to our Mark Janos, a member of the winning softball team and the outgoing class president, with his wife , 20th." Mary Ann, and classmate Paul Philbin.

Colby, August 1991 65 Ohio. She is a published poet, has earned a master's in fine arts and is working on a doctorate in Joseph B. Johnson '75 linguistics ....Ross Moldoffand his wife, Amy, are anticipating parenthood in Salem, N.H., Headliners where Ross is planning director for the Town of Salem and Amy

is a music teacher. ... David John F. Reichardt '71 was appointed director ofthe Michigan International Office, a division Bernier,writing from Waterville, of the state ChamberofCommerce, by GovernorJohn Engler. ...M. Anne O'Hanian Szostak '72 is a partner in the law firm of received the Tribute to Women in Industry Award from the YWCA ofPortland, Maine ... . Gregory Marden, Dubord, Bernier and White Smith '73 received a 1991 Pulitzer Prize forJackson Pollock: An American Saga,written with Stevens. He shares the honor of Steven Naifeh . . .. Bruce Drouin '74 lefr NCNB Texas National Bank to become vice president being parent to two sons, Luc and and manager of the corporate banking department at Casco Northern Bank in Maine ....Gene Mathieu, with his wife, Karen DeLorenzo '75 was named head men's basketball coach at Oberlin College in Ohio ... . Joseph B. Unger-Bernier. Along with sev­ Johnson '75 was appointed vice president and manager, administration and personnel services, at eral other parents in the Class of Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co ... . Allan '79, he lists childcare among his Rancourt '75 was elected pre ident of Kennebec Federal Savings and Loan Assoc iation in fi tness activities! . . . Deb Waterville. Schwartz tells me that l finally figured out how to get her to write to me-publish her as a missing person in Colby!Whatever works, Newsmakers Deb! She's been doing technical wriring for six years and is now Attorney Kenneth L. Jordan, Jr. '70 is 1991chair of theGreater Bangor (Maine) Chamber considering other possibilities, of Commerce.. . . Theodore M. Gawlicki '72 was promoted to vice president, specialty materials including computer graphics and and services group, at the Dexter Corp. in Chagrin Falls, Ohio ....Mark Serdjenian '73, Colby technical illustration. She admits, dean of students and men's soccer coach, received the Special Recognition Award from St. Sahag however, that it could all be and St. Mesrob Armenian Church of Providence, R. I., his hometown. Serdjenian was named men's changed by the next time she soccer coach of the year by the New England intercollegiate Soccer League and the Maine writes. Debbie is doing all this Collegiate Soccer Association.... The paintings of Lawrence Cappiello '74 were featured in "The pondering of her future from her Art of Education," an exhibit at Kean College in Madison, N.J. ...Jane Dutton '74 and Edward home in Medford, Mass. She asks "Ted" Snyder '75 were granted tenure at the University of Michigan School of Business about Beth Forsythe Israel, Jean Administration ....James E. Mahoney '74, executive assistant to Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II of Sherwood Lynch and Ed Smith Massachusetts, offered one of"Three Views of the NorthernIreland Crisis" at a conference held at '78. Who knows, maybe what FairfieldUniversity in Connecticut ... . David White '75 and Scott McDermott '76 have formed worked with Debbie will work

White & McDermott, P.C., a law firm catering to emerging businesses ....Constance Crosby '76 with them? ... Carl Lovejoy and lectured on "Archaeology as Historic Preservation" as part of theCape Cod Museum of Natural his wife, Cari, are a team at Tabor History's "Topics in the Archaeology of Cape Cod" series.... Greg Colati '78 was named librarian Academy in Marion, Mass. Carl for the Thayer Cummings Memorial Reference Library at the Strawbery Banke restoration in is d irectorofadm issions, and Cari Portsmouth, N.H. is assistant director of athletics. He answered the 'bragging' ques­ tion on the questionnaire with the names of his sons, Ben and Mileposts Matt, and the comment that Colby will be lucky to get them. Births: A daughter, Emily, to Kathy and Swift Tarbell III '72.. . . A son, Cody Canning, to I'm sure that he's right. Carl was James and Lee Canning Breene '77 ....A daughter, Talia Jean, to Shira and Mark E. Fishbon not alone in naming offspring as '77 ....A son, John Lovell III, to Barbara and John L. Mason '77... . A son, Robert Ill, to Robert a source of pride; many of you did and Jana Kendall Harrison '78. the same thing.... More next Marriages: Kurt A. Cerulli '78 to Mary L. McA vityin Greenwich, Conn ....Frank D. time." Pardee '78 to Margaret Murray in Medford, Mass ....Joseph W. Hotchkiss, Jr. '79 to Kristin Ann Tennent in Greenwich, Conn.

66 Colby , August 1991 THE EIGHTIES

Emily, finding time to renovate three and a half years in Hong Restaurant in Virginia Beach, Va. 80 Patricia Valavanis their 60-year-old home in Belle­ Kong, Mark '77 and Cornelia He, his wife, Tina, and their 3- Smith writes from Andover, ville, Ill., and refinishing and re­ Armbrecht Brefka have settled year-old son, Zachary, are plan­ Mass.: "James Lowe is a classics pairing furniture in their base­ in Greenwich, Conn., and are ning a trip to Hawaii this teacher at the John Burroughs ment woodworking shop. Last enjoying life with their son, Paul, fall. . ..Lesley DeYulio reports School in St. Louis, Mo., and summer, on their annual trek to born in January ....Greg Mills several major life changes. First, Laurel Munson Lowe looks after Maine, they stopped off and saw has spent a good deal of time on she 'feels 100 percent better due their brood of three children, ages Earl and Linda Clark Hammons the road during the past two years to a kidney transplant last Octo­ 2- 7, and three ca ts (no ages in West Virginia and Dave and handling marketing and support­ ber.' Second, she announced her given). They've just bought their Nancy Kennedy Eschner and ing clients for Bankers Trust in engagement to Joe Defio--they first home and keep busy with their son in Bristol, Conn .... New York, Stockholm, Toronto, plan to be married this month. church, school and neighborhood Chris and Kelley Osgood Platt Bermuda, London, Madrid, Chi­ Finally, the couple will be mov­ activities ....Physical therapists are living in Portland, Oreg., cago, Sydney, Melbourne and ing to Kansas City, Mo., prompt­ David and Julia Greenwood where Chris is a sales engineer for Tokyo. The hectic schedule ing Lesley to ask if there are any KreutzofDecatur, Ga., were look­ Hydraulic Instrumentation Sys­ played havoc with his reunion classmates in the area. Lesley re­ ing forwardto giving their 2-year­ tems. Kelley, the manager of treas­ plans, but, not one to be idle, he's ceived her master's in health ad­ old daughter a sibling this past ury services at Freightliner Corp., journeyed to other exotic locales ministration and most recently February.... Ann Albee Hoefle says, 'I never expected to bework­ for vacations, including Hawaii was director of ice arena skating say she and lain '82 'made a ing fora company that makes 18- and Puerto Rico (golf outings} programs around Clay, N.Y .... conscious decision to give up the wheel trucks, but the kids (An­ and Des Moines, Iowa (a girl­ Dorothy Distelhorst is practic­ good salaries and bustle of Bos­ drew, 6, and Colin, 3) think it's friend's hometown) ....Thanks ing general dentistry in the Vail, ton, which we really enjoyed, to neat!' When Chris isn't tending to everyone who returned a ques­ Colo., area. She was married last pursue a lifestyle that gives us his roses, they enjoy hiking, fish­ tionnaire: you made the first year July to Karl Edgerton, with Jen­ more time for volunteer work and ing and cross-country skiing .... of this job an easy one! By the nifer Batson Wilson serving as interests outside of our jobs.' Af­ Jamie Inglis is working in invest­ time you read this I'll be even matron of honor. Dorothy keeps ter several moves, they call ments and lives in Rye, N.Y., more thankful for any news, so active by running, biking, aero­ Middlebury, Vt., home. Ann is with his wife, Patricia, a commer­ please keep me up-to-date on any bics, skiing and by caring for their the office manager for the cial banker. ... Stacey du Bell new ventures, vocations or avo­ retriever/lab, Mogol, and for Geonomics Institute, which is Mileti, resident of Torrington, cations." Shasta, a mini lop-eared rab­ currently working on finding a Conn., with husband Bob, has bit .... Matt Donahue says he solution to the economic crisis in asked me to inquire if any of you works more, sleeps less, but is the Soviet Union and eastern would like to buy their kite fac­ having a lot of fun with his two Europe ....Robin Doorly is a tory (any takers, please let me 82 Emily Cummings sons, Matthew andGregory. Last client service account executive know!} Stacey says she prides thanks everyone for "the terrific summer, Matt won his first supe­ at Citicorp POS in Stamford, herself on learninghow to read a response" to her recent question­ rior coun jury trial. He plans to Conn. Her off-hours activities balance sheet- 'quite a revela­ naire. "I received so many replies assume an active role in the include an extensive daily work­ tion foran an history major.' The that I had to limit their inclusion Tsongas presidential campaign out (something she said she'd soon-to-be-mother adds that here. To be as fairas possible, this and welcomes help from anyone never have anticipated when she since her last contribution to this column includes news from those interested .... Karen Enegess left Colby), windsurfing (self­ column, 'we've bought a 200-year­ classmates who were faithful writes from her new address in taught),jewelry-makingandserv­ old house and in two years have enough to have responded to both Ashland, Mass., that she has sev­ ing as treasurer of her condo restored a room and a half, leav­ questionnaires by Colby's dead­ eral jobs. She is an independent association . ...Peter Forman, ing just the nice big ones and the line. Please be assured that aU distributor for Nuskin Interna­ who was elected minority leader exterior. I now consider any room others will be included in my tional, a marketing rep forUl ti­ of the Massachusetts House of that has neither power tools nor newsletter and/or my next Colby mate Auction and a pan-time Representatives in January, lives chunks of ceiling in its midst to column ....Nancy Brown writes bartender. Karen keeps fit with in Plymouth, Mass., with his wife, be professionally decorated.' ... that she and husband Gregory Nautilus, free weights, downhill Dawn, two young sons and a Congratulations to Andrew Davis are moving fromPrinceton, skiing and waterskiing whenever daughter, Sarah, born last Octo­ Goode, who graduated from the N.J., to Bayreuth, Germany. possible and 'dabbles' in guitar, ber. ... Ann Nichols Kash calls Duke University School of For­ Nancy received her Ph.D. in ge­ drawing and painting ....Ray­ military life with husband Kelley estry and Environmental Studies ology fromPrinceton and will be mond George says that 'family '81, an Air Force captain, 'inter­ in May. During the summer he working as a research scientist at life is great!' His daughter, Kelsey, esting and challenging.' She's a served as a seasonal biologist in Bayerisches Geoinstitute in now 15 months, should have a stay-at-home mom looking after the Blue Ridge Mountains for The Bayreuth ....Tom Cone is cur­ new brother or sister by the time 7-year-old Jason and 5-year-old Nature Conservancy.... After rently general manager of Chili's Colby goes to press. He and his

Colby, August 1991 67 REUNION '91 '81 Makes It a Family Affair

The Clas of '81 had a good turnoutfor its 10th reunion, which two youngsters-Danny (3) was kicked offat an informal reception at the Joseph Spa following and Lindsey ( 1 )-in tow; the banquet on Friday night. Classmates played pool, chatted and Peter Cocciardi's son, Mat­ enjoyed refreshments while most wound down from a long week of thew (2), was on hand; work and a quick dash to Waterville. "Everyone looked terrific," Natalie an

68 Colby , August 1991 wife, Debra, are both orthodon­ era! company. He has served as have logged many miles on their lifter. ...After three years as an tists. Ray's recent successes have both vice president and presi­ tandem bicycle . . ..Mary Radl­ Air Force captain and dentist in included passing the written exam dent of the Vermont Geological hammer received her master's in northernMaine, Dr.Don Vafides on his way to becoming board Society .... While still doing education from Simmons last year. has moved back to the D.C. area, certified in orthodontics and lec­ some PR work for Sugarloaf, She really enjoys working at where he has just started his own turing on temporomandibular Nancy Briggs Marshall an­ Boston's Museum of Science, dental practice. He brags that he joint dysfunction to associates. nounces that she is the owner of where she teaches youngsters in is in better shape now than when ...Linda Hurwitz left a news­ her own agency, Nancy Marshall the Discovery Room as well as he was at Colby because of filled message on my (sometimes Communications, and a free­ supervises overnighteducational weightlifting, wimming, biking daffy)answering machine. She is lance writing service, Mountain 'camp-ins' .... Ann Renner and walking everywhere (for lack currently playing violin with the Copywrite. If that doesn't keep Stillwater's family now includes of a car1) ••••Paul and Karen Virginia Symphony and Opera her busy enough, Nancy is also Christopher, 5, Robin, 8, and of VarnumMatt now have two sons, and had asolo recital lastJ anuary halfway through her M.B.A. at course husband ] . D., full-time fa­ Sean and Stephen. Karen is a at Virginia Wesleyan College. Thomas College in Waterville. ther and part-time musician and full-time mother and part-time She spends summers in Colorado ... Bob McCurdy '81 and Ginny woodworker.Ann graduated from early childhood instructor at the where she has run into E. J. Meade McCourt-McCurdy say that they nursing school and has moved YMCA near their home in in Boulder. E. ]. did write to say are knee-deep in babies (and dia­ from California to New Philadel­ Worcester, Mass. In addition to that he is a graduate student at pers), with Katie, 4, Robbie, 2, phia, Ohio, where she is a charge running after her 2-year-old, the University of Colorado, and and Ryan, 2 months. Running up nurse at a nursing home. Ann and Karen is busy with sewing, needle­ was anticipating being awarded and down tairs is Mom's fitness ] .D. have converted a 1963 book­ point, calligraphy and home his master's in architecture. This program. In between babies, mobile into their home .... Joline decorating ....Tom Warren and past May he received his first de­ Ginny takes a cour e a semester Rioux Boulon has moved from his wife, Pamela, have moved to sign commission-for a house in and is close to earningher master's France ro England, where her Cape Cod (Woods Hole), where Vail. Linda also notes that in education at SUNY/New husband, Pascal, is U.K. sales he is an aquaculturist (scallop Claudia Goulston was practicing Paltz ....Deborah Nader Dodg­ manager for a French firm. Joline farmer) and she is a visiting nurse. medicine at Newton Wellesley son writes that she is currently an is happily caring for their daugh­ Previously Tom had worked for Hospital. Peter Van Dyck and outdoor educator and early edu­ ter, Cindy, bornOctober 25, 1990, the Peace Corps in the Central Ann Foster were married last June cation teacher. This past winter busily working on her doctorate African Republic and as an oys­ with 12 Colbyites in attendance. she passed an intense certifica­ and starting karate classes . ... ter farmer in Washington state The couple is living on the Cape, tion process with the Professional Brian Sanbornand Pamela Hoyt and had started a food bank in where Ann is a fashion designer Ski Instructors of America. Deb '87 also proudly report a new Connecticut. ... In addition to and Peter is working in his father's is now deciding between going daughter, Allana Jane, born in her job as a happy mom, Susan business. Lastly, Linda reports back to public chool teaching or March. Brian has been in teach­ Wechsler Atkins is in charge of that Patrick and Susan French to graduate school for a counsel­ ing since graduation, most re­ planning programs and recruit­ Fine had a son, Joshua, born last ing degree ....James O'Grady cently chemistry at Traip Acad­ ing new members for a volunteer October. When I last heard from was recently promoted to corpo­ emy in Kittery, Maine. He keeps organization that raises money Susan the Fines were living in rate logistics network services in shape by coaching girls' bas­ for Israel. ...After receiving her Swaziland (southern Africa, for business manager at Digital in ketball and boys' baseball at the master's in education from those of us who are geographi­ Andover, Mas . He would like to local high school. ...Sandy Lang Harvard, Katie Wheeler is now a cally ignorant) and working for let the Dekes know that he won MacDonnell sent me a great let­ doctoral candidate in human de­ the U.S. Agency forInternational the 1988 Easter America, New ter filled with news; the most re­ velopment and psychology at Development. Susan has used her England and U.S. APF National cent and exciting is that she and Harvard's Graduate School of master's in public policy from the Bench Press championships .... husband Tad have a daughter, Education. She is also doing re­ Kennedy School in a variety of Yes, Lynn Ploof-Davis, you did Morgan, born October 9, 1990. search on childcare issues at the ways with USAID. Thanks for fill out the last questionnaire! Sandy is an accounting manager Wellesley Center for Research the news, Linda-I had to play Lynn is an assistant director of for Gannett Co., Inc. and Tad is a on Women. Katie's extensive the tape four times to get it Upward Bound at the University mortgage banker. The couple re­ travel has included two trans­ all. ...Walter Judgefi nished law of Maine at Farmington. Her sides in McLean, Va., where Atlantic sailings, living on a kib­ school, passed the bar, accepted a husband, Steve, is a manager of Sandy stays fit by running daily butz, a peace walk in the U.S.S.R., job with a Boston law firm and Carrabassett Valley Ski Touring and playing golfand tennis when­ Europe and the Middle East and found his future wife. Congrats Center. Lynn has almost com­ ever she can ....Susan and John trekking in Nepal. Her next des­ all around! ...Eric Lapp says he pleteda master's program in coun­ Simon were married last August tination? Thailand ....Su san never expected to be living in the selor education. She and Steve and are living in Bedminster, N .] ., Woods Spofford is caring forher Rutland, Vt., area, where he is an enjoy cross-country skiing and where both are attorneys. John, 2-year-olddaughter, Virginia, and environmental officerfor a min- their new two-person kayak and too, is a golfer as well as a power she and husband Rob are expect-

Colby, August 1991 69 ing a second child in November. Susan has started a 'Mother's Moving Out' daycare coopera­ tive in her church so busy com­ munity mothers can have a few hours' break for other special projects ....Dr. Diane Zavotsky has delivered many babies as a To Play Is the Thing family doctor in Maine. Now she and husband Daniel McClenahan are expecting their own child in When she was 7 years old, Linda Hurwitz '82 sat down at the piano for the first time. Her fate October. If all that didn't keep was sealed. Twenty-three years later, Hurwitz is still making music-now as a violinist with the Diane busy enough she also jogs, Virginia Symphony Orchestra. bikes, cross-country skis, has fin­ There have been some tough choices along the way. Introduced to the violin by a beloved ished a triathalon and paints grammar school music teacher, Hurwitz abandoned the piano in the seventh grade. "It was one of watercolors ....Linda Zee is a the most difficulttimes in my life,having to choose which instrumentI was going to continue with," Ph.D. candidate and associate instructor of Spanish in Bloom­ Hurwitz says, "but it was being made clear by both my music teachers that I should be practicing ington, Ind. Linda has partici­ every day. Cross training doesn't make it in music." pated in two conferences and was Then there was college. Ober! inin Ohio had a five-year program for music majors who wanted eagerly awaiting her first publica­ to earn a master's concurrently with a B.A., and the idea was tempting. But Hurwitz had crossed tion in May, as well as 'finally Julliard offher list early in the game ("It is difficultto gee through, not fun, not a place where you seeing the light at the end of the grow and learn a lot about yourself"), and she suspected that Oberlin would have similar limitations. academic tunnel.' She walks six The Last thing she wanted, she says, was to have only music major forfriends. miles a day, bikes, enjoys drawing There were no regrets about choosing Colby, even though Hurwitz ays that between and short story writing and is look­ academic work, practicing forher senior recital, traveling to Boston for private lessons and playing ing forward to an upcoming trip with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, she hardly had a moment to relax during her final year on to South America ....One final MayflowerHi ll. "But at least when I did come up for air, there were my English-major friendsand note: At our recent reunion plan­ ning meeting we agreed to solicit my bio-major friends,"she says. "Now I struggle to meet interesting, well-rounded people like the help from any professional, ama­ people I mer at Colby." teur, starving and/or closet artist After Colby, Hurwitz took a job as a live-in mu ic teacher with a German fam ily in Cambridge, to design a logo for our 10th re­ Mass. She continued to play in Portland and prepared an audition piece for admission to the New union. The design would appear England Conservatory of Music in Boston. on a t-shirt, hat, mug or whatever While at the conservatory she was offered a position with the Sacramento Symphony. She the class decides it would like to turnedit down. "I was looking forwardto my master's recital," she says. "It was a public performance have as a keepsake from the (I and it was a very big deal. And I loved my teacher, Paul Kantor. I wanted to learneverything I could hope) memorable weekend. from him." Please give me (617) 723-2671 or She spent the next five years "freelancing" in Boston, playing for several orchestras within a Meg Torrey Crain (617) 964- 5675 a call if you would like to 200-mile radius--as a fu ll-time member in Portland and at the Rhode Island Philharmonic and as help with this artistic endeavor an occasional substitute elsewhere. "It was crazy," he remembers. or with any part of reunion plan­ In 198 7 Hurwitz was offered the Virginia job, and except fora one-year interlude with the New ning. Whew! That's it for now, Orleans Symphony, she's been there ever since. Every few months she travels to one city or another, gang. Keep those questionnaires spends five or 10 minutes playing to an audience of unseen judges, and returnsto Virginia hoping coming for the newsletter I'm the audition will lead to the next big break-a chair in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Atlanta. Hurwitz amassing." spends her summers at the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, playing with an orchestra composed of musicians from across the U.S., including some from the big orchestras forwhich she aspires to play. She is philosophical about all the hard work and about the distance she has yet to travel. "I "I've received some 84 feel like it's been worth it," she says. "l run into people in other fields who say, Tm not sure I like wonderful notes and letters from many of you over the past few what I'm doing. I might want ro change careers.' I've never said that. I love what I do. I've always months," notes correspondent known l was a musician, and I've never had to think, 'What am I going to do with my life?' " Amy Carlson. "Kathryn Soder-

70 Colby , August 1991 berg Downing wrote to let me written in the past few months June 1990. They bought a 240- pounds, six and a half ounces. know she married Brian Down­ and let everyone know that I will year-old house in Francestown, Congratulations! ...There was ing on November 21, 1990. To be returning to graduate chool N.H. She is an investment bro­ such a great response to the last quote Kathy, 'we practically to get my M.B.A. at the Univer­ ker with INVEST at Numerica questionnaire that I couldn't fit eloped but decided at the last sity of North Carolina, Chapel Savings in Manchester, N .H.... all the names in this column. If minute to tell our familiesabout Hill, in August. I don't know at Maryanne Stevens Cleary re­ yourname isn't here, look for it in a week beforewe took the plunge.' this time what my address will be ceived a master's in analytical the next issue." Sounds pretty romantic to me. but look forit in the next issue of chemistry from Virginia Poly­ She and Brian are living in Colby and keep those cards and technical Institute and State Marblehead, Mass. Kathy con­ letter coming!" University. She is a supervisor of tinues to sell insurance and gas chromatography at NET At­ 86 "A number of mile­ teaches conversational Spanish lantic of Bedford, Mass. She and stones head the news for the Class to adults in Lynnfield and to her husband, Jason, celebrated of 1986," says correspondent health-care professionals at Mas­ 85 Mary Alice Weller­ their fifth anniversary December Gretchen Bean Lurie. "Ethan sachusetts General Hospital in Mayan writes: "Elliot Kolodny 31. ...John Siletto is farming Wiesler and Melissa Lawrence the evenings. Kathy also had news got married and bought a house 130 acres of wine grapes in were married last July. Following about classmate Valerie Miller. last fall. He and his wife, Caroline, Hollister, Calif., the 'Earthquake graduation from Colby, Ethan did Val is an EMT in New York City. are attorneysin Philadelphia . . .. Capital of the World,' he says. He modem dance in Boston for two Last year she made guest appear­ Kristin Hazlitt graduated from invites anyone in the class to look years, then worked as an inter­ ances on a local TV station and the Washington College of Law him up if they're in the area .... preter for a Japanese manufactur­ talked about her experiences. In at American University. She is Several people were wondering ing company before entering her pare time, Val sings with a currently an associate at a law what Tom Claytor was doing. He medical school at Wake Forest gospel group that has made sev­ firm in Washington, D.C., spe­ wrote from Greenland that he is last year. ...Kelly McPhail eral recordings to benefit chari­ cializing in education and admin­ busy freezing and writing. He has Mendez and her hu band, Larry, table causes ....Mary Lou istrative law. She has been doing gotten a book contract from were married last Augu t, honey­ McCulloch Jones wrote to let me a lot of sailing in Annapolis, Md., Knopf, which he still finds hard mooned in the Cayman Islands know that she's alive and well and the Finger Lakes ofNew York. to believe. Tom wrote that and then took a three-week trek and living in Jacksonville, Fla. She ends a warm welcome home Greenland is in a rapid tate of in the Himalayas ....Ted and Her husband, Lt. David Jones, is to Joel Paine. He was stationed transition to catch up with the Robin Clisby Pelczar were wed a pilot in the Navy and was sta­ in the Red Sea flying an EA-6B rest of the world, and he wonders, last October and now live in New tioned aboard the USS Theodore Prowler from the aircraft carrier 'Is being modernand technologi­ Hampshire . . . . Charles McCabe Roosevelt during the war in the USS John F. Kennedy in Opera­ cally advanced so good ?' Tom's married Sara Schutten in Novem­ Persian Gulf. Mary Lou keeps busy tion Desert Storm. Kristin drove mail is being forwarded by his ber. ...Dan Hurley and Brigid taking care of her 17- month-old to Norfolk,Va ., togreetJoel when father ifanyone wants to keep in Kane celebrated their marriage son, Duncan, and is also the presi­ he returned,but they missed each touch. Write c/o Browner Rd., last December and now live near dent of the squadron's wives' club, other in the crowd of thousand Radnor, PA 19087 ....Another Boston, where Dan is an accoun­ which does extensive volunteer on the pier. ...Jennifer Kirk is world traveler, James Gill, writes tant with Peat Marwick Main .... work forthe Navy Marine Corps working for the local branch of a that because of the war he won't Lawrence and Leslie Greenslet Relief Society .... Sandy Win­ Wall Street brokerage firm in be driving through North Africa. Perry were married in April. ... ship Eddy and husband Wayne North Conway, N.H. She lives Instead, he'll fly to Johannesburg Colby can expect the application Eddy '85 have moved to Cheshire, on Conway Lake, likes to ski and and then on to Namibia, Zimbab­ pool to grow in about 18 years Conn. Sandy is selling forDigital is finishing up an M.B.A.... we, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana with the followinglegacies: Tess Equipment Corporation, and Linda Flight is engaged to Peter and Tanzania ....Ben Lowry is Elizabeth arrivedin February 1990 Wayne is now working for Mass. Lull '86. A July wedding is a second-year law student at Mas­ to Andrew and Betsey Burrell Mutual. Sandy would love to get planned ....Su zanne Orcutt sachusetts School of Law and is a Feamley. Proud mom Betsey has together with any classmates in Kelly is living in Erie, Pa., with Law Review member. He lives truly foundher career niche with the area. If you'd like her address, her husband, Dan, and they're with his wife, Shelley, and two the Community Action Commit­ just drop me a note and I'll send it expecting a baby ....Mary Beth German shepherds. In Ben's spare tee in Hyannis, Mass., a non­ to you ....Finally, Maureen Boland is a vice president at the time he plays on four softball profit, anti-poverty human ser­ Betro Barrett and husband Jef­ Bank of Boston. She is engaged to teams and studies ....Susan vice agency formed to empower frey wrote to let me know of the Tom Haut of Newport, R.l. ... (Robertson '82) and Stan Kuzia low-income residents by giving birth of their second son, An­ Beth Towle and her family re­ are proud of the newest member them access to affordable hous­ drew Joseph, on December 19, cently sailed to the beautifulBrit­ of the Kuzia family. Their daugh­ ing, health care and childcare. 1990. Congratulations! I'd like ish Virgin Islands. ...Lisa Maria ter, Virginia Mary, was bornApril Tyler Blake was borninJune 1990 to thank all of you who have Booth married David Booth in 4, 1991, and weighed eight to Amy (Russell '84) and Gavin

Colby, August 1991 71 Murphy. Jim Campbell and his ning for theirresidencies in pedi­ a survey supervisor. ... I heard rently the director of develop­ wife welcomed their second atrics at Maine Medical Center from Jim Sullivan's father, who ment. She loves her job and fe els daughter, Margaret, last fa ll. in Portland ....Thanks to all of brought me up to date on him. very lucky that she has been able Daughter Catherine is 3. Now you who responded to my last Jim was admitted to the graduate to use her liberal arts degree to its living in Schwienfurt, Germany, letter. Best wishes to everyone class of 1990-91 of the Writers' fullest. Helen is still playing Jim is commanding a mechanized for continued happines and suc­ Workshop at the University of squash and bikes frequently, ex­ infantry company in the 3rd In­ cess!" Iowa. After spending the summer ploring all over the beautifulstate fantry Div ision. Kim '85 and in Bar Harbor, Maine, Jim will ofColorado .... Heide Schmaltz Rachel Brandzel Rogers became returnto the university, where he wrote that she's an internfor the proud parents to son Maxwell was awarded a teaching/writing fourth gradeat BrookwoodSchool Patek in January.Lynn and Randy 87 "I've received some fellowship. He will be teaching in Manchester, Mass., and will be Mitchell welcomed their first great letters from a few of you fiction writing . ...Rich Cuthie receiving her master's in educa­ daughter, Kirsten Elizabeth, in filled with lots of exciting news," wrote me a great letter loaded tion from Lesley College in Cam­ March. Randy was promoted to writes Lucy Lennon, "so I'll get with info on what he's been doing bridge this summer. She'll then assistant vice president of the right down to business and relay since graduation. I hope I get this move to Pennsylvania to join her commercial loan department at all your info. Dorisann Weber all in. After driving cross-coun­ husband, Jeff Lasher (they were Fleet Bank of Maine. A real civic Wagner had a busy 1990. She try, he ended up in southernCali­ married June 8), an M.B.A. can­ leader, Randy is also president of graduated cum /au.de from Ver­ fornia and in the past few years didate at Penn State ....Sue the Waterville Council of Big mont Law School, passed the has been a project manager for a Costello and Erin Borgeson were Brothers/Big Sisters and a mem­ Maine bar exam, began work at large textile manufacturing com­ in Heide's wedding, and Heide ber of the board of directors of the Eaton Peabody Bradford and pany, an industrial engineer rede­ was in Erin's wedding to Bill Mid-Maine Chamber of Com­ Veague, a firm in Augusta, Maine, signing departments and jobs and Castelli in Edina, Minn., in merce. Keegan James was bornin and married John Wagner '84. an operations manager for two May ....Heide wrote that Chris February to Chris and Jessica Sarah Graves Stelfox wrote a businesses owned by a real estate Vickers, who is getting his Flood Leitz ... . A number of while ago that she, her husband, investor. He moved on to sell M.B.A. from Harvard, planned classmates have also reached ter­ Brad, and their son, Will (born computer software in west L.A., to marry in June. Chris met his rific milestones in academia. Phil November 30, 1988), are living moved back to Boston briefly in fiancee, Gina, while working for Sundel finished law school and outside Jackson Hole, Wyo., October 1990 with the same com­ Lee Jeans in Kansas .... And on entered the Navy ].A.G. Corps where Brad teaches at a small pany, and moved back to Beverly that note, I'd like to end with and is now practicing in the Phil­ chool and Sarah keeps busy Hills, where he is currently some exciting news of my own. ippines for a year. Rick Bernard working part time for a non-profit bartending, painting, applying to Daniel Tucker, my boyfriend of is working as a foreign exchange organization called Snake River grad school, working on a screen­ three years, and I got engaged this broker at the Tokyo Forex Co., Institute, which offers workshops play and trying to get a clothing past April, so 1992 will be busy Ltd. this summer before return­ in writing, art and photogra­ company off the ground1 Al­ for the Lennons, as my younger ing to M.B.A. studies at Chapel phy . ...Mark Pagnano, who will though Rich has been going non­ sister, Laura, is getting married in Hill. Also at Chapel Hill, Julie graduate shortly from George stop, he managed to find time to October and Dan and I, who Archer is a graduate student in Washington University Medical fill me in on the following people: haven't set a date yet, may also the School of Public Health, School in D.C., was recently se­ Edie Bernhard is still in NYC, make '92 a special year. Dan i a Maternal and Child Health. lected for an orthopedic surgery Carol Hani is just finishing up stockbroker for Livada Securities, Chris Parker spent la t month residency at the Mayo Clinic and her M.S.W. at the University of Inc., a private firm in South Port­ studying in Helsinki and Lenin­ will spend the next five years Pennsylvania, Deb Fillman gradu­ land, and has been in Maine since grad in preparation foran assign­ there. Mark sends his best to all ated from U. Penn and is teach­ he left his rather large hometown ment abroad with NYNEX. David other Colby classmates who are ing in Chicago and Jeff Norton is ofBrooklyn, N.Y., in 1987. We'll Lane recently finished his third just finishing up med school. He in med school in Philly. . ..Helen be getting married in Philadel­ year of a doctoral program in gov­ also wrote that Mike Misner is Muir wrote from Denver, Colo., phia, my hometown, but then it's ernment at Harvard. He begins living in D.C. and writing for a where she has been living for al­ back to Portland, which we both thesis research this fall in Japan, national publication involved most fouryears. Her first year there love. At this writing I'mstill work­ Taiwan and Korea. Cynthia Kelly with recycling and environmen­ she worked for the Denver Art ing in the pension department at Briglin graduated from medical tal issues. . ..Gretchen Weiser Museum, and for the past two and Maine National Bank, which has school in May and will begin her Carney sent word of her mar­ a half years she has been working recently been acquired by Fleet. residency in ophthalmology at the riage to Joseph Carneyin June of for the Colorado Endowment for So, although the future is uncer­ Syracuse Eye Institute after a year 1990. She and Joseph, who is a the Humanities. Helen started off tain, I'm looking forwardto any of internship.Holly Swanson and CPA in Boston, bought a house as a program assistant, was pro­ opportunities that lie ahead. Lila Hopson also graduated from in Weymouth. Gretchen is still moted to working on public rela­ Thanks to all of you who wrote med school (UVM) and are plan- working for theCensus Bureau as tions and fund raising and is cur- me and yes, Heide, we'd really

72 Colby , August 1991 REUNION '91 Large Tu rnout Makes Fi-fth a Blast

Gretchen Bean Lurie came pre- ("She bugged people every month," pared for The Question. Whenever was the word) obviously paid off. someone approached the Class of 1 986 After a lobster feed with all the correspondent and asked, "So, what trimmings, Dan MacDonald, still the are you up to these days?" she whipped life of the party, piled into his car with out a small black case and extracted a class "social director" Kathleen business card. "Gretchen B. Lurie," Hooper and learnedthe hard way that the card read, "Mom and Wife ...And the Waterville Drive-Thru, five years Damn Proud Of It!" ago a one-stop party store, is now a sub Gretchen was one of 100-plus shop-and there's no dnve-up win- '86ers who returned toMayflower Hill dow. But they found refreshment el e- for their fifth reunion. She and actress where and returned with them w a Helene Landers, a fe llow Californian, class volleyball game held in from of covered the most distance in making the Shell, where a band played '80s the trip, but both said it was worth it. favorites. The game was instigated by The excellent weather, the chance to Mary EllenMarnva Chris "Critter" Brogan, his fiancee, be "kids" again and the opportunity to Henrietta Yelle '86 and mom Alta Estabrook Yelle '41 Cindy Lloyd, Andrea Sarris and catch up with far-flungclassmares were proudly celebrate their fifthand 50th reunions . Sheila Duffy Davis. "We found that a too good to pass up. keg doesn't disappear quite as fast as it A terrible rumor-that Bonnie's Diner had closed-swept did five years ago," said Brigid Hoffman, whose last-minute urging through the Friday night social hour. But early on Saturday helped increase the number of '86 attendees. morning, groups led by Kelly Donahoe, Janet Kelley Gjesteby At the banquet that evening, Professor Charlie Bassett and Heather Reay made the short trip across the bridges and regaled the class in his usual fashion, saying he knew and liked discovered, to their relief, that the cholesterol still flowedin the them even though they all got B-minuses in "Zoo Lir.," a.k.a popular eatery. Introduction to American Literature. "He told us we had the In the meantime, more than 50 classmates marched in largest turnoutever of a five-year reunion class," Brigid said, "but Saturday's parade, inspired by Meg Frymoyer's Princeton-grad we didn't know whether to believe him or not." (She thought not. ) fiance, who led the cheers. Meg was up from Boston, where he The evening's busines proceeded with the election of clas works forReebok-she probably had the most comfortable feet in officers. Tim Kastrinelis was re-elected president, Melanie the crowd. Class agent Leslie Greenslet Perry took special Megathlin rook the post of vice president, Gretchen Lurie agreed pleasure in presenting the class gift, a check for $86,000 (aug­ to another five years as secretary/treasurer and Tom McCallum mented significantly by a generous donation from Annette will represent the class on the Alumni Council. Hanzer), to President Cotter. Leslie's persistence in fund raising After the banquet it was on to the dance, where the floor was dominated by smooth-stepping former White Mule athletes such as Sue Whitney, recently back from a hitch in the Peace Corps, Patrice Galvin Hagen, Norma Delaney and Karen Jodoin. When the dance closed down at one a.m., the class revived an old tradition: climbing through windows ro reach the roof of Mary Low, where Guy Holbrook, Charlie Clippert, Peter Cooke and Peter Solomon threw a party. Intra-class marriages, such as that of John "J.J." Burke and Lori O'Keefe, and the '86 Baby Boomlet were topics of conversation throughout the week­ end-some class members were a little amazed ro note that many had been married and/or produced children since graduation. Everyone was charmed by Keegan Leitz, young son of Christopher and Jessica Flood Leitz, but the prize for most progeny in attendance went to Laurie Brown Crowell, who had one baby in

tow and another due in July.Eve-Lynne Ermer brought Leslie Greenslet Perry and Tim Kastrineli.s present their classmates' gift w Mike husband Scott Russell '83 but left her two babies at Franklin '63 (second from left) and President William Cotter. home in Connecticut.

Colby, August 1991 73 Headliners

Colby trustee Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80 was promoted to vice pre ident at Fidelity In titutional Retirement Services, a division of Fidelity Investments, in Newtonville, Mass .... Robert English '82 has formed Grant Partners, a portfolio management firm with offices in New York and Chicago ....Drug Policy and theDecline ofthe American City , by Samuel Staley '84, is under contract to Transaction Books and is due for publication next summer ... . Michael P. Archibald '87 was appointed director of annual giving at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.... Carol Anne Beach '88 was named Colby's head women's basketball coach and assistant women's soccer coach for 1991-92 .... Brendan Canning '89 has founded Athena Enterprises, national purveyors of gourmet iced tea, in San Francisco. Carol Anne Beach '88

Newsmakers

Because their publishing hou e, Viewfinder Publications, lnc., specializes in Middle Ea t-related materials, Elizabeth Martin­ Hutchison '80 and R. Barclay "Clay" Hutchison '82 were the subjects of a profile in the Albany-based Capital Area Business Review during the GulfWar. ...John A. "Jay" Polimeno '81 was named general managerof the Tremont House Hotel in Boston ....Lawrence C. Starke '81 received a research granr from the National institutes of Health to tudy the physiology of red blood cells as a postdoctoral fe llow at the University ofT ex as, Gal vesron.... Scott D. Vandersall '81 wa appointed assistant vice president of commercial lending at First New Hampshire Bank ....Paul Maier '82 was promoted to regional sales manager for telecommunications sales at AT&T in Taunton, Mass.... Patrick Woelfel '82 wa promoted tod ivi ional managed accounts consultant at PaineWebber in Boston ....Michael J. Schafer '83 was named New England Sport Lodge B'nai B'rith coach of the year. Schafercoaches soccer, qua hand ba eball at Belmont Hill High School in Massachusetts ....Navy Lt. Frederick Canby '84, D.O.. , served on the USS Missouri in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm ....Wheaton College men's basketball coach Roy Dow '84 is moonlighting as a pitcher with the Norton (Mass.) Knights baseball team ....The Rev. Marlene Schmidt '84 was named associate pastor of the United Church of Christ, Canton, Ma s . ... Deirdre Galvin '85 was named community editor of the Pembroke (Mass.) Mariner.... Harland E. Storey, Jr. '85 was promoted to manager of transportation at Wetterau Portland, lnc., a food distribution concern in Maine .... Over 70 drawings and paintings of Greece by Valerie Claff '86 were exhibited at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston last spring .... Richard B. Deering '86 joined the Portland Regency Hotel as a sales executive .... Brian Norris '86 was named head coach of boy's track at Beverly (Mas .) High School. . . . Mark J. Wylie '88 is executive assistant to the pre idem of Best Buddie of America, Inc., an organization that helps college student volunreers help the mentally retarded . . ..Melissa Early '89, newsletter editor forthe Women's Information Network, was quoted in a Newsweek article examining the reaction among Kennedy family supporters ro the William Kennedy Smith rape case. She admitted that the case ha left her with le s "starry-eyed respect" for Senator Edward Kennedy.

Mileposts

Births: A son, John Collins, to William and Lynn Collins Francis '80 ... . A on, Kyle Kelley, to Joseph and A. Darcy Mac Kinnon Sledge '80 ....A daughter, Emma Victoria, to Johanna Rich '80 and Barry Tesman '81. ...A son, Ryan Joseph, to Bob McCurdy '81 and Ginny McCourt-McCurdy '82 ... . A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, to Paul and Carolyn Gibbs Leary '85 ....A daughter, Katherine Elizabeth, to Karen and Kevin Purcell '83 ....A daughter, Kir ten Elizabeth, to Lynn and Randy Mitchell '86. Marriages: James C. Votta '81 to Florabelle G. Ganibi in Altadena, Calif. ... Paul Revere Ill '83 to Stasia Ann Orr in Farmington Hills, Mich ....Mark B. Schafer '83 to Mary Elizabeth Landon in Weston, Mass .... Donna E. Altenpohl '84 to William R. Deasey, Jr., in Philadelphia, Pa . ...Denise Brunelle '84 to Todd Priess in Sudbury, Mass.... Frederick Canby '84 to Denise E. Snell in Gardiner, Mass . ...Karen Ann Marquardt '84 to Anthony S. Mclellan in Newport, Mass ....Susan Edwards '85 to Bennet Fauber in Ann Arbor, Mich .... Alex Vailas '85 to Nancy Sutton in Manchester, N.H. ...Electra Webb '85 to Edward Sheridan in New Canaan, Conn ... . Charles F. Cleary '86 to Dorcas Rebecca Sears '87 in Lexington, Mass ....Leslie Greenslet '86 to Lawrence Perry in Greenwich, Conn. ...Charles E. McCabe '86 to Sara F. Schulten in Saratoga, Calif. ... Nicholas Mark '87 to Leslie Tate in Bar Harbor, Maine.

74 Colby, August 1991 appreciate your help in planning ton. _ ..In the Boston Colby Ga. After receiving her master's rently stationedon Parris l land, for our fifth reunion. As for those settlement, Stacey's formerroom­ in education, Anna took a job Ken is a Georgian and aval of you I haven't heard from, we'd mate, Karen Linde, is working at teaching in Atlanta. Her hus­ Academy graduate. Mary andKen love as much help as we can get to the Children's Museum in Bos­ band, Bob Casey '86, is working will live on Hilton Head until make the reunion fun and memo­ ton; Suzanne Maclachlan is do­ on his Ph.D. in psychology at Ken's 16 months of service are rable-just let me know if you're ing editorial work at the Christian Georgia State ... . Mary Kay over. 'After that, who knows interested." Science Monitor; Bevin Dockray Eickhoff, writing from Hilton where we'll end up,' writes

is in publicrelations at the Mullen Head Island, S.C., where she Mary.. _ . Sue Prescott and Joyce advertising fi rm; and Charlie works for Ann Taylor, tells of Joseph will be member of Mary's Lord is working for an insurance how she met her fiance, 1st Lt. wedding party. However, Joyce 88 Emily Isaacs writes company, the American Inter­ Kenneth Franklin Dunn, Jr., 'on will not be Joyce Joseph; she was from Northampton, Mass.: "Last national Group. _ . _ In lessColby­ a blind date [I was] literally Joyce Mundt as of June 29, when October Kristin Sween was pro­ populated states are Whitney dragged to!' The potential night­ she married at Lorimer Chapel. moted to manager in charge of Gustin in Vail, Colo., and Anna mare turneddream will be made ...Sue Prescott, working for commercial accounts at the in- McCaw Casey in Atlanta, official on September 28. Cur- Digital, has bought a condo .... urance agency she works for on Well, that's all the news [ have the Cape. Kristin writes that she and while it may seem like a lot, often saw Toby La Vignethrough l have only received a few letters. work but now sees him less as he And all the letters received for has left real estate development Correspondents this column were from women. for the printing business.... She Rather than dare to speculate as also runs into Gretchen Halunen 1980 1985 to what this phenomenon signi­ at the Mid-Cape Racquet Club. Patricia V. Smith MaryA. Weller-Mayan fies, [ urge Classof '88 men to get ...Karen Croffwrites that she is (Patricia Yalavani ) (Mary Alice Weller) to work!" working on a master's in an his­ 6 Hammond Way RD 2, Box 149 tory and museum studies at Wil­ Andover, MA 01810 Camden, DE 19934-9611 liams College ....The D.C. 508-4 70-1 484 302-697-0142 Colby '88 contingent remains 89 "Several classmates strong: Rick Evans is at Catholic 1981 1986 have decided to marry their for­ University studying law. Also at tunes together, making 1991 a Beth A. Wilson Gretchen A. Lurie Catholic University areBob Lian very good year for Tiffany's, not (Beth Pniew ki) (Gretchen A. Bean) '90 and Pat Clendenen. Pat and to mention those Colby statis­ 1 Oxbow Road 2606 San Marcos Drive Pattie Haffey Clendenen's baby, tics," writes Deborah Greene. Wayland, MA 01778 Pa adena, CA 91107 Paul, had his fir t birthday this "Both Sue Banta and Bob 508-358-2845 818-356-7538 spring.... Martha Smith is work­ Gallagher wrote to announce ing at a trade a sociation, where their happy news:a May 30, 1992, she writes the newsletter and 1982 1987 wedding. Sue is living in West Emily E. Cummings plans national meetings ...- Ar­ Lucy T. Lennon Hartford, Conn., and 'battling the chitecture seems to be a popular 21 Temple Street �5 9 Wellstone Drive banking world,' while Bob, who Boston, MA 02114 field for '88ers (perhaps as a result Portland, ME 04 101 was working in Burlington, Vt., is of inspiration from our award­ 617-723-2671 207-772-7127 now at the University of Hart­ winning Student Center?): Mike ford pursuing a master's in ac­ Graf is at U. Penn and Chris 1983 1988 counting and working for Coo­ Brown is at the University of Sarah Merchant Emily J. I aacs pers & Lybrand. [ don't know Maryland. ___Law, another (Sarah Lovegren) 274 Prospect Street ;:2 whether he is more excited about popular field for Colbians (why HCR 62, Box 244B Northampton, MA 01060- the new job or the shorter com­ doesn't anybody else want a Ph.D. Mt. De err , ME 04660 2127 mute to see Sue ! To no one's in English? l dare a k), is actively 207-244-3678 413-586-2443 surprise, Kirk Koenigsbauer will pursued by Greg Cunningham be the best man, and surely we and Tom Ferris at Franklin 1984 1989 can expect the bachelor' party Pierce. Stacey Mendelsohn is Amy E. Carlson Deborah A. Greene to go down in history ....Robin working in a law firm in Seattle 58 Granville Road #2 38 Sorrel Road MacWalterwrote ofherwedding while her fiance, Josh Marx (fall Cambridge, MA 02 138 Concord, MA 01742 news: Timothy Martin of Pem­ ceremony intended), is studying 617-868-0556 508-369-6978 broke, Mass., proposed to her on at the Univer ity of Washing- April 2-the be t birthday

Colby, August 1991 75 present ever! They've set t hedate ticipated in another in July-his munications. On the side, he con­ ager at Fleet/Norstar; and Jodie for September 14 and are now own 1 Mary wrote that his bride, tinues ro work towardshi goal ot Brown is an account executive looking into honeymoon spot . Amy, is a second grade teacher being a horror writer. '! am hap­ for aBoston advertising firm. Em, Robin has been a paralegal with from Ohio and that the two are a pily single ancl plan to move to since you seem to be the heart­ Batty & Stein since graduation 'perfect match.' After the wed­ England as soon a l am able to beat of the Class of '90, how about and i al o working towards her ding in Ohio, the couple planned find a uitable position there.' ... writing the next column?! ... I C.P.A. . . . he also informed me to move to Providence, where Needless to say,you don't have to also received word that Erin of Jenny Webster's engagement Bryan work for AMICA Insur­ be engaged or married to write. Coyle is fund rai ing for the to Matt Hartley ' 6. The couple ance Co. Best ofluck . ...Forsyth Thanks for all the letters. If I Sojourner's1 S th anniversary com­ announced their betrothal last Kineon began her letter saying, survive my N.O.L. . course, I'll edy show. . ..Matthew Ovios re­ Christmas and will exchange their 'I've heard that a lot of people in fill youall in with more ' 9 news!" cently graduated from Officer vows on August 1. Naturally, our class aregetting married,' per­ Candidate School at the aval Jenny and Robin will be bride - haps the understatement of this Education and Training Center ma 1ds for each other. Be t column. he reported these in Newport, R.l. He i now a wishes' . ..Tripp Johnson gor matches: Danielle Archambault naval ensign ....John Hutchins down on hi knees to propo e ro to Roger Nowak '88, Tanya Goff 90 "Well, it's been an joined the Gould Academy ski Heidi Lombard on a very roman­ to Stew Richmond '88, Diane entire year since we graduated team staff. ...Betsy Kuller re­ ttc Valentine' Day 1991.Lonmer Pearce to Dave Kew '90 in Janu­ from atop Mayflower Hill, and cently returned from an exciting Chapel will be the site of their ary (rhe couple now lives in now there is a new crop of Colby year in Yokneam, Israel, near June 27, 1992, wedding. Heidi Brunswick, Maine). Marc Rando graduates ready to take on the Haifa. She worked with Sherut will wear her grandmother's 52- is also engaged, Forsyth says, but world," says corre pondent Deb­ La'am (Service to the Peop le), vear-old wedding gown. Tripp and she wasn't sureof who his fiancee bie Adams. "Wish them luck! ... helping out in chools, in centers Heidi are both in Needham, Mass. is. Minor details! Congrats to Emilie Davis brought me a ton of for the elderly and with family She's at home, and he's 'across everyone. Well, my thesaurus and news on the whereabouts of our counseling-and he learned town living with three older I have run out of synonyms for classmates. I ran into Em at an what it is like to live in a country women.' Hmmm. Heidi is work­ wedding and marriage, o it's time All-Star basketball game-oneof under bombardment. Scud mis­ ing forthe personnel department forothernews. ...Jeremy Banks her Hebron Academy players was siles from Iraq fell regularly on at a small company in Newton wrote from Atlanta, where he is participating. Em is basketball, Haifa during the Persian Gulf and loving it, despite the fact, she teaching at the Brandon Hall field hockey andlacrosse coach at War, and Betsy says she felr lucky admits, that it has nothing to do School. He's hoping to work Hebron. She is also teaching Eu- to know enough Hebrew by the with her art major! Tripp has closer to New Englandnext fall­ been working for Computerland before the southern accent be­ as an education sales rep for IBM comes permanent! Despite hi Correspondents products. Best of luck! ...Mary large classes (five students??) he's LaPointe, in typical English ma­ enjoying himself-hang in there! 1990 1991 jor fashion, sent me two pages of He also apologized to Tom Debbie Adams Brad Comisar single-spaced, one-inch margin, Karafin for not making it to his Assistant Basketball Coach 235 Dellwood Avenue edited and proofed Colby news. wedding (another one?! ). The Boston University, Dayton, OH 45419 She was busy planning her own invitation must have gotten lost 285 BabcockSt. 513-299-4368 wedding to Jeff Farley '88 in July in the ma il! ... John Semple Boston, MA 02215 in Portland, Maine. Since Mary filled me in on his travels-a year works in Portland and Jeff in touring the Middle East and Eu­ Providence, they planned to com­ rope, hitchhiking and sleeping ropean history and working in time the war started to follow promise with a home somewhere under trees, living on bread and admissions. Here is Em's news: broadcast instructions on how to in N.H. Mary admit to enjoying water. Despite a loss of25 pounds Sarah Hayne is job hunting in don a gas mask. Betsy i pending life among the 'tech-heads' in the (has Weight Watchers heard NYC; Dyanne Kaufman i 'hang­ the summer job hunting in New corporate research and technol­ about this plan?), he's planning ing out' in London; Page Higgins York City ....And finally, the ogy area of UNUM Life Insur­ to venture to Central America and Kristin Hock are both work­ last bit of news l know is that ance and has evenbeen consider­ next. Happy travels! ...Lastly, ing in law firms in NYC; Steve Randy Grover is studying long ing a computer programer's Mad Metal Marty, a.k.a. Andrew Coan is working for Shawmut and hard (and skipping a few training program. Admit it, Mary, Dodge, wrote to tell me he's been Bank; Cathy Hugo is in grad classes) in ophthalmology school you just miss the wonderful at­ a semi-pro concert and record school at Columbia; Scott Schir­ in Boston ....Good luck with mosphere of the MacLab two days reviewer for the past two years meier is teaching at Kents Hill; your second year out!" before finals.... The best man at and is now at the University of Sue Beevers is selling computers that wedding, Bryan Cook, par- Maine pursuing a master's in com- in Boston; Tom Whelan is a man-

76 Colby,August 1991 OBITUARIES Roger Metz, Professor and NASA Scientist

School Administrator Berkshire Chaoter of the National Confer­ Wayne W. McNally '21, an educator ence of Christi;ns and Jews and a phys1c1ans' who worked in school administration for recognition award from the American Medi­ over three decades, died in Ludlow, Vt., on cal Association. In 1982 the city of North April 2. He was 91. McNally was born in Adams celebrated Dr. Arthur 0. Rosenthal Clinton, Maine, and attended Clinton High Day, and a city park wa named for him. School. While at Colby, he was a member of Ro enthal wa a dedicated donor to the the Student Army Training Corps, Alpha Alumni Fund and helped recruit numerous Tau Omega fraternityand the Upsilon Beta Colby students. Rosenthal's wife, Ethel, sur­ freshmanhonorary society and was manager vived him for only 24 hours. He i survived of the baseball ream. After graduating with by two daughter·, a son and several grand­ a B.S., he went on to earn a ma ter of arts children, including Susan Fanburg '89. degree from Brown University in 1928 and a master of arts in education from Columbia in Science Pioneer 1934. He also earned a master's in library Jane C. Belcher '32, a pioneering edu­ science from the University of Kentucky. He cator, died April 6 at her home in Pittsford, was an active member of the Phi Delta Vt. he was 80. Belcher was born in ew Kappa profes ional cholastic fraternity for York City and attended Maplewood, N.j., over years. Mc ally served as an admin­ SO schools before enrolling at Colby. She ma­ istrator in the Providence, R.I., school sys­ jored in French at the College and was a tem for 36 years. During this time he worked member of Chi Omega sorority and the at a variety of jobs, including teaching, guid­ and board . She was among ance and supervising, and he participated in Colbiana Oracle the few women of her day to pur ue graduate developing curricula for elementaryand sec­ work in the sciences, earning a master's ondary school . He was a member of the degree in zoology from Columbia University Colby "C" Club and wa active in commu­ in 1933 and a doctorate from the University nity organizations, including the Rotary, of Mi souri in 1940. From 1933 to 1936 she YMCA and Community Fund. He served as taught at the College, and in 1 940 she joined president of the Federal Hill House A soc ia­ Roger N. Metz, professor of physics at the faculty of Sweet Briar College in Vir­ tion and a a Boy Scout district commis­ Colby, died on May 14. He was S2. Bornin ginia. In 1972 she was named the Dorys sioner. He i urvived by his wife, Hope B. Bedford, Ohio, Metz graduated fromOberlin McConnell Du berg Professor f Ecology af­ McNally, a son and two step ons. College in 1960 and was an Andrew Mellon ter spearheading efforts to expand environ­ Fellow at the Univer ity of Pittsburgh in mental studies at Sweet Briar. She retired as 1961. He earnedhi s doctorate in physic at professor emeritu of biology in 197 S and CornellUn iversity in 1967 and spent a year Beloved Physician moved to Vermont, where she was active in Arthur Rosenthal '25, who prac­ as a National Science Fellow at Antioch 0. volunteer causes and was curator of the ticed fa mily medicine for SS years in North College beforecoming to Colby in 1968. He PittsfordHistorical Society Museum. In 1987 Adams, Mass., died March 4 in his was promoted to as istant professor in 197S, she became a Colby class agent; her letters to Williamstown home. He was 87. Rosenthal to a sociate profe sor in 1978 and to full classmates were thoughtful and engaging, was born in Waterville and educated in the professor in 1985. From 1974 to 1989, Metz personal and universal. "Our only chance of local school system. After Colby, he studied served as chair of the Department of Physics. immortality is what we leave behind u to at Middle ex College School of Medicine, Metz was a visiting scientist at the National serve worthy causes that will outlast u ," she graduating in 1929. He served in Europe Aeronautics and Space Administration's wrote in 1989. "Colby is uch a worthy during World War lI as a battalion surgeon Lewis Research Center in Cleveland during cause." Belcher made her bid forimmortality and as a captain in the S4th Field Hospital. summers and sabbatical leaves beginning in on those terms with an extraordinarily gen­ He was a member of numerous fraternaland 1982. His work focused on the interaction erou bequest to the College, made just days community organizations, served as presi­ between an orbiting spacecraftand the elec­ before she died. She is survived by a sister dent of the Northern Berkshire Medical trically charged low-earth atmosphere, and and a brother. he was studying the use of solar energy to Society and of the United Jewish Appeal power the proposed U.S. space station. In and was a fellow of the American Medical 1980 he was a member of the Committee to Association. He received many accolades Loyal Alumnus Save Maine Yankee, a nuclear power plant for his unswerving dedication to both his R. Leon ''Ben" Williams '33, a leading in Wiscasset. He is survived by his wife, profession and the community, including Maine business person and devoted alum­ Nancy D. Metz, his mother and an aunt. His the North Adams Eagles' civic award, the nus, died May 10 in Clifton, Maine. He was son, Joshua, predeceased nim. Human Relations Award from theN orthem 81. A native of Clifton, he prepared for

Col.by,August 1991 77 Colby at Higgins Classical Institute, where Harbor Literary Club. Favour published sev­ Coles Harris '42, a son, two daughters and he later became a trustee. At Colby he was a eral monographs for the Abbe Museum, and two grandchildren. member of the Student Council, the Echo her most recentwork appeared in Down East staff, the debating and international rela­ magazine. She is survived by a daughter and tions clubs, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity a son. Colby Son and Pi Gamma Mu professional fraternity. Carlyle L. Libby '44, a building con­ He majored in business administration. In tractor and radio announcer with deep Colby Clifton in 1938 he founded Campbell and Library Professor roots, died May 12 in Damariscotta, Maine. David C. Libbey '39, a librarian and Williams, the successful lumber company He was 69. The son of Herbert Carly le Libby university professor, died August 12, 1990, '02, beloved professor of public speaking at that now bears his name. Williams was ac­ in Orem, Utah. He was 73. Born in Detroit, tive in civic affairs, serving three terms in Colby, and Mable Dunn Libby '03, he was Maine, he graduated from Maine Central born in Waterville and prepared for Colby at the Maine House of Representatives and Institute. While at Colby, he was a member Lawrence Academy in Massachusetts. At two in the Maine Senate. He also served as of the International Relations Club, the Colby he was a member of Delta Upsilon Penobscot County Commissioner and State Classical Club and Pi Gamma Mu. After fraternity. He left the College forservice in Highway Commissioner and was a select­ attending Columbia University and the the Army Air Corps during World War II, man in Clifton for 34 years. Williams was University of Chicago, he received his doc­ then moved to Rochester, N.Y., where he the recipient of several awards forcommu­ torate in Library Service from Rutgers Uni­ owned and operated a hobby shop. He went nity service, and a 3 7 -mile stretch of Route versity in 1940. From 1943 to 1946 he served on to become treasurer of the Pemaquid 9 was named after him in 1987. He was a as a cryptographer with the U.S. Army Air Land Co. in Maine, was night announcer at memberofColby's Alumni Council, Alumni Force. Before and after the war he was a WKRD in Rockland and was an indepen­ Fund Committee,Penobscot Valley Alumni librarian at a number of colleges and univer­ dent building contractor when he retired. Association and President's Club. He re­ sities and at the New York Public Library. He is survived by his wife,Barbara Blaisdell ceived a Colby Brick in 1974, as well as a From 1960 to 1963 he was a professor of Libby '44, two daughters, Susan Libby and Colby Gavel. His support of the College and Library Science at Rutgers. He then taught Beth Farrell, and two bothers, Willard Libby the Colby 2000 Campaign, his role in the at Southern Connecticut State University '37 and Mark Libby. construction of the Millett Alumni House until his retirement in 1983. He is survived and the creation of the R. Leon and Alma C. by his sister, Betsey Libbey Williams '42. Williams Scholarship Fund led President Insurance Executive WilliamCotter tocall Williams "the epitome Haddon S. "Fiz" Fraser '51, who of the loyal alumnus." Williams is survived Educator founded hi own insurance company in New by his wife, Alma C. Williams, and five Laurie L. Harris '42, a retired school York City, died March 27 in Haworth, N.]. children, including Raymond Williams '69. administrator, died October 19, 1990, in He was 61. Born in Portland, Maine, he Hollis, N.H. He was 70. Born in Fitchburg, prepared for Colby at Westbrook High Mass., he was active in football, track, base­ School and followed the lead of his parents Writer, Teacher ball and hockey. He was a memberofLambda (Paul F. "Ginger" Fraser '15 and Phyllis St. Edith "Billie" Falt Favour '38, a Chi Alpha fraternityand served on the intra­ Clair Fraser '13) and sisters (Mary Fraser teacher who parlayed alife long love of Maine fraternity sports council. He was also in­ Woods ' 4 5and Ada Fraser Fitzpatrick ' 50) in into a late-blooming writing career, died volved with the Outing Club and partici­ attending Colby. Another sister, Janet Fraser March 19 in San Diego, Calif. She was 75. pated in pilot training. After Colbyhe served Mitchell '54, also attended the College, as She was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, and as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve did numerous other relatives. While at Colby, graduated from Gilman High School. At during World War II and received a Bronze Fraser was a four-year member of the football Colby she majored in sociology and minored Star. He earnedhis master's degree in educa­ team and worked for the Echo. After Colby in English. She worked forthe Echo, serving tion from the University of Massachusetts at he attended both the University of Chicago as women's editor in 1938, wa vice presi­ Amherst. He was a teacher for many years and the University of Wisconsin at Milwau­ dent of Powder and Wig and was a member before taking supervisory and executive po­ kee, where he took advanced courses in of the Glee Club and Colby Radio. She was sitions in education, becoming principal of insurance and administration. After many vice president of Sigma Kappa sorority her schools in Hollis and Walpole, N.H., and years with American Re-Insurance Com­ sophomore year. After graduation, she taught assistantprincipalofLexington (Mass.) High pany, where he rose to vice president, Fraser English in various Maine towns. She was a School. He retired from education in 1975 founded his own firm, Haddon Associates. member of the Women's clubs of Northeast and entered the real estate field. A member He was also a director of the Corporate Harbor and Bar Harbor, was on the Board of and past commander of the American Le­ Marketing Services company in Saddle Directors of the Robert Abbe Museum of Bar gion Post of Bernardston,Mass., he was also Brook, N .J . He was active in the Federation Harbor, where she served as a narrative past chair of the Hollis school boardand was of Insurance Councils, the Banker Club of interpreter, and was a trustee of the North­ active in church and investment organiza­ New York and the Insurance Society ofNew east Harbor Library and a member of the Bar tions. He is urvived by his wife, Elizabeth York and servedas president of the Haworth

78 Colby, August 1991 Republican Club. He was also a member of Brandeis University, Rachal became a finan­ the Colby Club of New Jersey and the Colby cial consultant and investment banker. She "C" Club and contributed generously to the eventually founded Rachal Enterprises, Inc. COLBY College. He is survived by hi wife, Joan in Chicago with her husband, Paul, who sur­ Connolly Fraser, and three children. vives her along with their children. Volume 80 Number 4

Colby is published five times yearly for the Admissions Officer Professor and Dean alumni, friends, parent of student , sen­ Gary S. Poor '58, director of admissions James M. Gillespie, emeritus professor iors, faculty and staff of Colby College. at Clark Univer ity, died March 26 in W orces­ of psychology and assoc iate dean of students Address correspondence to the Directorof ter, Mass. He was 54. Bornin Augusta, Maine, at Colby, died June 9 in Winslow, Maine. He Communications, Colby College, Water­ he graduated from Cony High School. At was 72. The story of his support forColby, as ville, ME 0490 1-4799. Colby he received a Travelli Scholarship, wa a fac ulty member, an administrator and a Magazine Staff: Edward Hershey, director a member of the AFROTC program, the Glee benefactor, appears on page 28. of communications , executive editor; Sally Club and the Colby Symphony and was the Baker, managing editor; Nora L. Cameron, associate editor, graphics and design; Mary founderof the All Maine Band Festival and a Former Coach member of the All New England College Ellen Matava, associate editor, photography; Nelson W. Nitchman, who coached Carol Anne Beach '88, sports editor; Robert Band. After graduating with a degree in soci­ football at Colby, died March 4 in New Lon­ Gillespie, College editor; Bonnie Bishop, ology, he spent three years in the Air Force don, Conn. He was 82. He began his coaching creative director; Jill Moran '93, editorial and then tudied education at Springfield career at Union College and coached only intern College, where he received his master's in one eason at Colby: in 1940 he guided the Contributing Photographers & Illustra­ 1964. He worked at Nasson College and White Mules to their first state championship tors: David Wilkinson (front cover), Lois Pomona College before joining the admis­ in more than 35 years. He left theCollege for Leonard Stock '73 (inside front cover), sions department at Clark in 1968. He even­ service in the Coast Guard during World War Rhett Weiland (inside back cover) tually became director of undergraduate and II, then coached at the CoastGuard Academy Administration: William R. Cotter, presi­ international admissions. He is urvived by a for 48 years. He i survived by his wife, Jane, dent; Peyton Randolph Helm, vice president daughter, a son and his mother. and a brother. for development and alumni relations; Earl H. Smith, dean of the College; Susan Conant Cook '75, director of alumni relacions Investment Banker ROTC Instructor Elisabeth Lyman Rachal '65, a distin­ William D. Renner, ROTC instructor Board of Trustees: Lawrence R. Pugh '56, chair, Gerald]. Holu '52,vicechair, Richard gui hed busines person and mother of five, at the College from 1957 to 1960, died May 2 7 L. Abedon '56, Howard D. Adams, Robert died December 6 in Winnetka, Ill. She was in Portsmouth, N.H. His 30-year Air Force N. Anthony '38, Frank 0. Apantaku '71, 47. She was born in Brookline, Ma s., and career included service with the Strategic Air H. Ridgely Bullock '55, Alida Milliken educated in Urbana, Ill., where her parents Command and tours of duty in the Korean Camp (Mrs. Frederic E.), Levin H. were professors at the University of Illinois. and Vietnam wars. He received numerous Campbell, John G.Christy, Susan Comeau During her Colby years, Rachal participated decorations and retired with the rank ofcolo­ '63, William R. Cotter, James B. Crawford in many activities and organizations, includ­ nel. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, a '64, Robert A. Friedman, Robert M. Furek ing the Glee Club, Dorm Council, Pan Hel­ brother and a sister. '64, Jerome F. Goldberg '60, William H. lenic Council and the Women's Athletic Goldfarb '68, Peter D. Hart '64, Nancy Association. She was a member of Chi Omega Spokes Haydu '69, Robert S. lee '51, sorority, was captain of thecheerleading squad Librarian Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80, Robert Robert Bingham Downs retired A. Marden '50, David M. Marson '48, and was an honors student. After graduating H'44, director of the University of Illinois library Edson V. Mitchell lII '75, Paul D. Pa­ with a degree in sociology, Rachal continued and author of Books ThatChanged World, ganucci, Wilson C. Piper '39, Robert Sage her education at the University of Michigan, the died February 26. He was 87. Before joining '49, Richard R. Schmalu '62, John M. earningan M.A. in guidance and counseling Seidl, Robert E. L. Strider II, Barbara the Illinois library staff, Downs worked at in 1966. She earnedher M.B.A. fromHarvard Howard Traister '65, Mary Elizabeth Brown Colby's Miller Library from 1929 to 193 1. Business School, receiving one of theschool's Turner '63, William D. Wooldredge '61 fellowships for women. She was a national Alumni Council Executive Committee: finalist for the White House Fellowship Pro­ Inventor Victor F. Scalise, Jr. '54, chair, Forrest W. gram and also participated in the Outstand­ Edwin H. Land H'55, the inventor of Barnes'56, Albert F. Carville,Jr . '63, Eliza­ ing Young Women of America Program. She the Polaroid Land Camera and founder, presi­ beth J. Corydon '74, John B. Devine, Jr. was the author of seven teaching case studies dent and director of research of the Rowland '78, Michael L. Franklin '63, Scott F. forHarvard Business School published by the Institute for Science in Cambridge, Mass., McDermott '76, Germaine Michaud Orloff Harvard College Press. After working in col­ died March 1. '55, Donald J. Short '64, Solomon J. Hartman '67 lege administration at Radcliffe College and

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Colby welcomes letters from readers. We The business of Colby should be ro she was appointed recorder. She held this reserve the right to edit for brevity and clarity . prepare students to live in the real world and position until her marriage to Professor Ri­ Please send correspondence to: Editor, Colby , improve it where po ible, not ro mold ev­ chard Cary. The title indicated slightly fe wer Office of Communications , Colby College , eryone into a so-called politically correct of the registration responsibilities than reg­ Waterville , ME 04901 . image, nor to steep them in the "isms" preva­ istrar but the position was no less important lent in liberal arts schools today. Talk about in the administration of Colby. The faithful shades of 1984. service Frances gave as recorder should be Correction One hope that the majority of stu­ noted and remembered. Some of my classmates will be offended dents at Colby are more concerned about Rebecca Larsen-Wyman ' 33 by the inaccuracies in the "Proud Son" story learning and growing into adulthood than in Laguna Hills , Calif. in the May Colby: thought control-because "PC" is nothing First, the Deputation Team was inter­ more than thought control. faith, including Jewish, Catholic and Prot­ A. H. Clement '48 Song Stylings estant members. Second, I did participate as Kalispell, Mont. I can't locate the issue of Colby where a "non-frat" in the interfraternitytrack meet, the origin of"All UpTo Cheer For Dear Old as some of my teammates will remind me at Amen tothe May letter from Catherine Colby" is first discussed, so l'm not sure reunion time. Third, no graduate of Colby Briggs '36 pointingout the s1llinessofreplac­ exactly what the dispute is about, but it would be so unattractive or unqualified as to ing the termfresh1nan with the term first-year appears from the March issue there is a be assigned to kitchen duty on a new job. My student. Equally male and retrograde are the debate about whether the song existed dur­ kitchen experience was on a pre-college job words sophomore, junior and senior. Are these ing the 1920s. I have some interest in this at age 16. In 1938, after a year of teaching next for the thought control chopping block? era, having written a paper about Colby high school science, I became a field scout George Brown during the 1920s, portions of which were executive with the Manhattan Council, Boy Seattle, Wash. included in a Colby article last year. I have a Scouts of America, where I received many copy of Colby College Songs from 1920 (Cen­ promotion over a period of 13years. Fourth, tennial Edition), which includes the anony­ after 60 years I feel no hurt or resentment Cover Controversy mously written "On to Victory," a song that toward the College or any of its personnel, opens with the line "All up to cheer for dear Shame on you ! The coverof your March past or present. Under randing, yes! old Colby." The song is to be sung to the 1991 Colby carries the message, "Some Stu­ The problems of women, minorities melody of"North Atlantic Squadron," which dents Try Sobriety." While your inside ar­ and race seem to be a point of focus these is probably a World War I song. This should ticle is enlightening, the cover tatement days, and Colby is probably little diffe rent date "On ro Victory" in the late teens, unles can be taken in numerou ways. from other places. I think it is easy for stu­ ofcourse "North Atlantic Squadron" is based As a high school guidance counselor, I dents of today to misinterpret the feeling upon a still earlier theme. often pass along my Colby publications to and reactions ofold-timers like me who have Scott Cameron '87 students who are exploring Colby as a strong survived the social climate of a time past. New York, N.Y. liberal arts option. This particular magazine Solomon Fuller '36 is going to the recycling bin instead. Boume , Mass. One of the first songs we learned in To alumni, parents and friends, let's 1940, possibly in freshman camp, was the send a clearer message on our covers. "Alma Mater," sung to the tune of "Old Marcella "Sally" Ray Bennett '67 Heidelberg." The chorus contained these East Greenwich, R.I. Thought Control? lines: It looks like the syndrome of being "Oh, Colby, alma mater dear, "politically correct" has hit Colby ["Peri­ Our hearts pour forth in praise scope," March 1991]. I had hoped it would Cary Remembered Of thy loved name and spotless fame, only infect the Ivy League schools. Do Colby The January issue of Colby failed to of happy student days." women feel so threatened by a generic term print an accurate, or perhaps I should say The ong mentioned in the March that merely means a first-year student? If so, complete, obituary formy friendand former issue were mostly rah-rah songs in those they are not as confident of their own worth bo s Frances Perkins Cary '33. days. and abilities as were the women students of As stated, Frances was secretary to the Helen Warson BoUli '44 the '40s and 'SOs. registrar from 1931 until about 1945, when East Hartford , Conn.

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